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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,193 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 47 of 60
For the third time the Chinese appear to have halted the Japanese advance in Shanghai. The Chinese spokesman states that the Chinese lines in the Lotien sector are unchanged, despite heavy fighting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →An almost forgotten, little war has been in progress in the North-West Frontier of India for 44 weeks. In it 221 British troops have been killed and 601 wounded. The extra cost to the Government is £110,000. The total number of troops in Waxiristan is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Textile Institute, announcing the award of its medal to Tmeritus Professor, Eurich of Leeds University, for work in reducing the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The 18th Assembly of the League of Nations adjourned after unanimously adopting the report and recommendations of the Committee of Twenty-three on the Sino-Japanese conflict, says a British Official Wireless message. Siam and Poland…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Everybody knows that the War of 1914-18 was "the War to end War." An American realist has gone to the trouble to list the troubles since war Was "abolished." Here is the list:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four new cases of delayed action blindness after 20 years, due to the after affects of poison gas, were admitted last year to St. Dunstan's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The mercantile paralysis brought about on the China coast by the Sino-Japanese war was described to-day by Captain J. M. Byrne, a shipmaster…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) spoke at Hurstville, in Barton electorate, and at Marrickville, on the border of Lang and Dalley electorates, to-night. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Economic sanctions, whether they were in the form of a trade boycott or definite export prohibitions, were in themselves futile said the Leader of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →The High Commissioner for Australian (Mr. S. M. Bruce) has been authorised to vote for the League of Nations' proposal for…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" at Tasheng reports that Private Chi Tung-nien. of the 62nd Company of the 62nd Chinese…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Admiral Mitsumasa, Minister for the Japanese Navy, has given to the Navy Fund the gold crowns from his teeth, says a Tokio message. He had a dentist take them out in order to set a patriotic example. The Admiral is 57 years of age…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The President of the League of Nations Assembly, the Aga Khan, has communicated with the signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty, and five other nations associated with them, asking that a meeting be convened to discuss…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The excitement of travelling in a ship under war conditions was one of the experiences of Mrs. J. H. Decent, of Singleton, during her recent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Footscray dairymen, who have banded themselves to-gether to freeze out a competitor from another suburb who is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Living in a furnished bed-sitting room at a nursing home near London is the Countess F. R. Sztray—in her own words a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Once again let me nail the lie that the Government is committed to a policy of war and conscription," said the Prime Minister (Mr. J. A. Lyons) to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →With the exception of Clydebank in Scotland, the South Maitland Coalfields contributed the greatest percentage of enlistments during the Great War,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gwen Gaze, a newcomer to the screen, makes a pleasing debut in "I Cover the War," at the Theatre Royal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The best whisky matures in sherry casks which, in 1934. cost 25s. Because of the shortage-resulting from the Spanish war, they now cost £10. A cask holds 110 gallons and the prime cost of whisky is…
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