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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
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Congress is being asked to appropriate 1,490,500 dollars (£372,625 Australian) to strengthen the Pacific Coast naval defences, stated Senator David Walsh,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"France hates war, but does not fear it," declared General Lesourd, Military Governor of Verdun, in an address to the garrison, which had assembled at the Ossuary…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Germany is preparing to coerce Czechoslovakia in the event of the conversations between Mr. Chamberlain and Herr Hitler breaking…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The State representative of the Returned Soldiers' League in Newcastle (Mr E. Kitching) sold to-day that the smoke social in the City Hall on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The individual, not the general, conditions of the soldier settlers needed consideration by the Government, declared speakers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →(Above, left) Messrs. Peters (Newcastle secretary) and Robb (State secretary) check over the agenda paper at the Soldier Settlers' Conference to-day. (Above right) Among the delegates at the conference (front row): Messrs. G. S. haw (president of the Newcastle branch). E. Kitching (second row) F. Naveau R. W. Buller and S. F. Molesworth…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Franco hates war, but does not fear it," declared General Lesourd, Military Governor of Verdun. in an address to the garrison, which had…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Urging a speeding-up of defences, the Assistant Secretary of War (Mr. Louis Johnson) told the National Defence Legion that many industrial plants…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →This schedule of minimum war insurance rate issued from Lloyds shows general increases from the United Kingdom to Australia and New Zealand, via…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Problems of the returned soldier on the land were discussed at the Soldier Settlers' Conference held at Newcastle yesterday as a prelude to the State Conference of the Returned Soldiers' League…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In view of a report that Palestine oranges were being imported into Australia, the Soldier Settlers' Conference, which sat in Newcastle yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Flagrant evasion of the Preference Act was alleged against certain local governing and public bodies by delegates at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Zealand soldierss who visited Newcastle last Anz[?] Day were so appreciative of the hospitality extended to them here that they had an address…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Statements that the Preference Act is operating harshly in the case of many men who were too young to enlist for service in the Great War are based on an imperfect understanding of either the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →(Top left) Messrs. R. Hutchinion (South West), C. A. Sounders (Warren), and R. B. Dunreath-Cooper (Coonamble); (middle left) ,A. S. Howell (Armidale). Colin Brown (Tamworth) and Macarthur Onslow (Camden): (bottom right) the Slate president of the R.S.L., Mr. L. A. Robb, the Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Alderman Griffiths), who opened the Congress. Mr. K. H. Todd (country vice-president) and Colonel Murphy (vice-president of the Metropolitan sub-branch of ihe R.S.L.); (top right) Messrs. B. D. Denver, E. A. Rushbrooke. A. Hickey, W. F. Cahill, and E. Clarke; (middle right) Messrs…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Charles Thompson, a diminutive negro, entered a store at Kansas City, stripped, and took a major's full dress uniform from a dummy and donned it…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →A survey of Press comment from all parts of the United States indicates a great strengthening of isolationist sentiment. It is generally felt that the French…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Returned soldiers delegates from most parts of New South Wales were at the City Hall yesterday, when the State conference of the Returned Soldiers' League was opened by the Mayor of Greater Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →The manner in which the Returned Soldiers Preference Act is operating is unsatisfactory to many delegates to the Returned Soldiers' Conference now sitting…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Lively discussion followed the submission of a motion to the Returned Soldiers' Congress in Newcastle to-day, that no commercialised sport be…
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