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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,193 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 52 of 60
The long-deferred air bombing of Nantao began at 2.30 p.m. to-day. A procession of 'planes dropped big missiles, which caused several large fires. Thousands of the inhabitants are beating frantically…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To-day, 19 years after the Armistice, there are still 1400 former British Army horses being worked in France and Flanders, according to Sir Percy Hurd,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War has been declared on cocktail parties in Liverpool, England. Leaders of the "antis" include the wives of many doctors, who have…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →So far as Japan is concerned, the Italo-Germano-Japanese pact is not directed, at present, against Britain or any…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A considerable reduction in the weight of the load to be carried by a soldier is shortly to be announced by the War Office. It is held that no…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sister Mary Lowson, one of the Australian nurses who spent some months in Spain, arrived in Newcastle to-day. During the lunch-hour she addressed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Commander Ivan Smirnoff, one of Europe's most famous airline pilots, is now back on the Amsterdam-Croydon route, after his spectacular…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The canton of Saint Gall has unanimously refused permission for the German Government to erect a war memorial near the town to twenty-three…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Concrete foundation for the new bridge over Cherry's Creek, near Barnsley. Below: The Bucyrus excavator, which…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"This trouble seems to be bringing the people almost to the point of civil war," said the Mayor (Alderman H. Fenton)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The canton of Saint Gall has unanimously refused permission for the German Government to erect a war memorial near the town to 23 soldiers who…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Britain is preparing to defeat the danger of starvation in wartime. Mr. Oliver Stanley, President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Not content with rearmament, which is proceeding at a feverish pace, Great Britain has established a Food (Defence Plans) Department of the Board of Trade…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A nine-day war—so brief that lack of raw materials would not prevent the aggressor from striking down his victim—was envisaged by Mr. Winston…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Interesting details of America's plans to ensure that her factories could produce War material at short notice in the event of on emergency were given to-day by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Colonel E. O. Milne, representing the State Executive, will attend a meeting of delegates from all Newcastle district sub-branches of the Returned Sailors and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The London cinema not only reflects but has also contributed to the new attitude to military matters. News films have recently been shown giving such a frank…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The proposal of the Kogarah sub-branch of the R.S.L., that the Duke of Windsor be invited to lead the next Anzac Day…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →"It seems to me that the nations that can stop war do not want to do so in the interests of humanity," said Ald H. E. Ireland at a meeting of Carrington…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →A "nine-day war"—so brief that lack of good raw materials would not prevent the aggressor from striking down his victim—was…
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