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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,193 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 41 of 60
The bright lights of Shanghai, city of more night resorts than any other in the world, have been temporarily dimmed by war. The few steamers that enter the Whangpoo River no longer bring crowds of pop-eyed tourists meaning to see those…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The determined resistance of the Chinese forces at Shanghai has surprised the Japanese, who are preparing for an intensive onslaught with reinforcements disembarked from 30 transports during the last three days…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Evidence of war fever was noticeable everywhere in Japan, said Mr. A. R. Allen, a Sydney business man, who returned by the Nieuw Zeeland, to-day. Air raid…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Predicting that the Pacific would one day be the cockpit of future world wars and Australia the main ammunition dump of the Pacific. Mr. Holloway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Relations between Nicaragua and Honduras are gravely imperilled owing to a dispute over a recent Nicaraguan postage stamp which bears an engraved map of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The total cost of the Great War to Australia to date is £843,914,000. This amount includes war and repatriation services £180,865,000; interest £289,963,000;…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sicilians at Palermo saluting Mussolini, enthroned in dictatorial splendour, when he declared that Italy would never tolerate Bolshevism in the Mediterranean…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The importance of protecting the Steel Works at Newcastle and Port Kembla from attack by a foreign Power because they are vital…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →One hundred and fifty thousand Chinese troops have been concentrated between the Yangtse-Kiang and Shanghai. The Japanese have secured ample riverside, landing ground but nearly three weeks mutt elapse before they launch…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Arrears of instalments on war service homes in Australia amount to £865,499, or 4.22 of the total value of 37,159 homes built by the War Service…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The bayoneting of a Chinese woman by Japanese marines and the wild confusion caused by the Japanese shelling and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →"War or no war we are determine to go to China to marry our boys." sold Miss C. Lloyd and Miss M. E Belcham who, on orders from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →At a meeting of the Kurri branch of the Returned Soldiers, Mr. J. Johnson reported that the erection of the new hall was well under way. The work…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The horror of Shanghai.—A photograph received by sir mail showing firemen and rescue workers taking away the dead and injured in the main business so[?] alter a bombing raid…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A new administration block will be built at Anzac Range for the N.R.A £10.000 prize meeting in February. A special Government grant of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A report of the American Chemical Society envisages bloodless warfare by meant of acetycholine. It is claimed that the injection of the minuted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE BRITISH FLAG still waves amid the wrack of war. In the distance smoke from the residential Wayside ares of Shanghai, which was practically burned oat. In set are two British soldiers, manning a Thomson machine-guss in a Shanghai street. ON GUARD at the Garden Bridge, which links part of the foreign settlement with the Japanese-dominated war zone. Soldiers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →State Department officials have stated that the United States is not prepared to guarantee the protection of American nationals and shipping abroad, because…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Chinese spokesman in Shanghai asserts that the Japanese are withdrawing from the Jukong wharf, which they have held for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Established in 1916 with £25,000, the Baillieu Repatriation Fund Gift, with which the Anzac Hospital at Brighton was founded, has grown to £36,689 and…
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