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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
1,377 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 42 of 69
Startling accounts of German military preparations continue to appear in the French Press, and general nervousness in Europe has increased. German villages, emptied at a moment's notice…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hamilton Sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League was advised that the Mayor of Newcastle (Ald. A. Griffiths) would call a" public meeting to discuss…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Terrorists started bomb-throwing this morning, to "celebrate" the anniversary of the outbreak of hostilities in Shanghai…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Putting plenty of "pep" into 'it. Students from Armidale Teachers' College, in Sydney to compete against the Sydney Teachers' College in sports and debating, practise their war-cry in a room at the it. hotel where they are staying. They [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mainly through wars, the national debt of England has gone from seventeen million pounds in 1688, during the reign of James II., to its present total of eight…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Germany's elaborate preparations for the Autumn manoeuvres, beginning on Monday, coupled with the acceleration of her fortifications on the western frontier, are causing perturbation in diplomatic…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE MOST important combined air, sen, and land manoeuvres yet held in Britain were completed this week when 400 miles of the eastern seaboard was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →IN FUTURE a regimental major will be able to earn the maximum retired pay at the age of 46 if he has 23 years' service. In the past, owing to the long…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Mr. S. G. Frankham has been chosen as delegate to represent the Cessnock sub-branch of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers Imperial League at the annual…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A telegram from the High Commissioner for Palestine (Sir Harold MacMichael) states that two Jews were shot and seriously wounded, one in Jeffa and the other…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Great War claimed another victim to-day when Mr. J. S. Harber, formerly of the 9th Field Ambulance, died at the Randwick Military…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"There are more possibilities of calamity confronting Australia than the possibility of destruction of life by war," said the Archbishop…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Three surgeons have performed a remarkable operation on a soldier. They joined a rabbit's spinal nerves to the nerves of the man's arms and legs, curing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The extent of the German manoeuvres has impressed diplomatic circles, but the feeling is growing that they are intended as a reminder of military power rather than an active threat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Delivery of the 400 'planes ordered by Britain from America to make up a temporary leeway in her own war…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A quaint little blue-stone cottage in Dudley-street, West Melbourne—the birth-place of tho late General Sir John Monash— began to fall to-day under the hammer and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Reports from various parts of Germany, says Reuter's correspondent at Berlin, indicate that the public is becoming seriously alarmed at the extent of the German military manoeuvres, especially because so many…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A British police inspector and an Arab warder were wounded during a bandit raid on Athlit prison. A Jewish police inspector, his wife…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Minister for Repatriation and War Service Homes (Senator H. S. Foll) said to-day that Cabinet had given approval for the War Service Homes…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →[?]ce is not the handmaid to frightfuless," declared Lord Rayleigh, the eminent physicist, in his presidential address to the British Association to-day…
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