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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 36 of 129
The State President of the Returned Soldiers' League (Mr. G. Holland) complained to-day that the State Government had not sought the cooperation of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →"While I believe that adequate provision should be mode for the defence of Australia, I regret that the Government should feel it is necessary to adopt a compulsory…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Axis is waging war on the nerves and morale of its neighbours and of the British Empire, and it is necessary, therefore, that…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →War was not inevitable to-day, and in his opinion it was never inevitable, said the Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies), addressing members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Fifteen Arabs were wounded by a bomb which exploded in the centre of the city to-night. An Arab workman wan shot dead in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The opening of the club rooms of the Hamilton sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers League on the top section of the Hamilton Mechanics Institute will be…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →"The returned soldiers of Hamilton have their own home now," said Mayor of Newcastle (Ald. G. W. Jenner), when opening the new club rooms…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Exchequer returns for the first quarter of 1939 underline the enormous growth of defence expenditure, which totalled £123,850,000 or double that for the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The "secret little war" on the border of Outer Mongolia and Manchukuo, near Lake Buir, is becoming a serious affair. THE fighting. which is really…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →If war came, everything and everybody would be in it, said the Managing Director, of General Motors-Holdens Ltd. (Mr. L. J. Harnett) in an address at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Zealand is unlikely to send an expeditionary force overseas in the event of Britain being involved in war, though it would certainly defend the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →All our preparations are designed not to provoke war but to preserve peace," said the King in a message to the nation broadcast…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A pleasant evening was spent at the Merewether Council Chambers, when the Merewether Women's Auxiliary of the Sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Provided satisfactory arrangements can be made with the trustees of the West Maitland Soldiers' Memorial Hall fund, the money will be expended for the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The isolationist opposition in Congress to his neutrality revision; policy might brine war nearer. President Roosevelt said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Zealand was unlikely to send an expeditionary force overseas in the event of Great Britain becoming involved in war, although it would certainly defend the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The offer of a block of land in Church street, West Maitland, made to the West Maitland sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League by Mrs. E. A. Heyes,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →At a meeting or the West Maitland sub-branch or the Returned Soldiers' League last night. it was decided to accept the offer of Mrs. E. A. Heyes,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a speech at the Chalons-sur-Maine in commemoration of the American Unknown Soldier, who was taken from France to Washington, the U.S, Ambassador (Mr. W. C. Bullitt) said that all the propaganda in the world would not whiten the hands or the soul of the man who draws upon evil in older to fill the earth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →President Roosevelt is gravely concerned about the possibilities of war in Europe. He spent Monday at his Hyde…
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