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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,193 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 60
The lack of interest shown in the affairs of the West Maitland Sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League was deplored in the report presented to the annual…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"Where is the spirit that took these men over to the war? They would never let a comrade down over there, yet they will not become…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Britain was rearming in the cause of peace, the Secretary for War (Mr. A. Duff-Cooper) told a meeting of Conservatives…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Miss Margaret Wansey, who has recently returned from China, was smartly frocked at a welcome home party given by Mrs. Harry Wansey at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Raymond G. Watt, General Secretary of the League of Nations Union of Australia, will deal with the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Howard Welch, manager of the Bendix Aviation Export Corporation, estimates that nearly a billion dollars will be spent in 1937 on new aircraft for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sir,—So the Church has learned nothing and forgotten nothing. Through the mouth of its leaders (e.g., the Archbishop of York) it renounces every one of its…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War loan stock, 3½ per cent., was quoted to-day at £101/15/…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"German people no longer entertain the slightest ill-feeling over the war; nothing remains but a great respect for their former opponents," Herr Hitler told 51…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Is war inevitable? That is a question you have to face up to. The situation on the other side of the world is such that nobody would attempt to dogmatise…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Secretary of the Cessnock branch of the Returned Soldiers' League (Mr. F. Coburn) was notified yesterday that the ex-Imperial men's representative an the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Rev. A. R. McVittle is to be invited by Cessnock branch of the Returned Soldiers' League to deliver the principal address at the Anzae Day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The well-known western Districts grazier, Mr. J. Woolcott Forbes, has donated an additional 650 guineas to the National Rifle Association of New South Wales for…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Deep down below Broad-casting House, in the north-east corner of the building, lies one of the B.B.C's most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Armaments in peace time are at bottom a contest in economic strength. In this field, Germany, Italy and Japan all know where they stand and where we stand," says the "Spectator."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A welcome home was tendered to Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Durston, of Argenton, on their return from England. The hostess was Miss Queenie Durston, and there…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"The message to us from the trenches of the world war is: 'Show yourselves worthy of our sacrifices. Put hate aside…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"The contingency of war was symbolised on January 1 by the dropping of insurance against war risks from all…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →By tracing through sustenance records the movements of an Imperial ex-service man who was seen travelling the road with a woman last June, detectives believe they…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sir,—In stating the causes of war "Oliver" says, "It is a necessary part of the capitalist system that rival capitalists must have markets, sources at raw…
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