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The wars & local soldiers, 1939

2,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 129

Woman's Realm Vanity Fair Facial Reduction Declare War Now on Your Double Chin

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 January 1939 · page 10

Have you a chin more than you need? And if you have that what are you doing to rid yourself of it? Perhaps you are only suffering a slight…

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War Precautions Electricity Department's Function Mr. Allbut's Review

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 2

Authority to confer with the Defence Department as to practicability and probable cost of installing war precaution warning sirens at strategic points…

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Nazis' War on Churches Catholic and Protestant Must Disappear

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 2

In this year's Nazi party rally at Nuremberg Herr Rosenberg, who is responsible for political education in Germany, delivered a speech which has not…

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War Risk Insurance in Britain Anxiety of Investors London

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 9

Chambers of commerce, builders, property owners, investors and ship owners are alarmed about the present uncertainty…

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Greek Community's Gesture Fund To Buy War 'Plane SYDNEY

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 8

To help buy a warplane for the defence of Australia, Mr. J. Kouvelis, prominent member of the Greek community in Sydney, has presented…

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Hunger Striker Ate Dinner in Hospital Bellbird Returned Soldier Protests Against Deregistration

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1939 · page 7

WILLIAM TATTERSALL, 58, a returned soldier, living at Bellbird, test against his deregistration from local relief work through his refusal to enter…

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War Precautions Council Officer's Inquiries in Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 10

Although much useful information concerning air raid and other war precautions was gained by the Greater Newcastle Council's Chief Health Officer (Mr. J. C…

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Fast Flight by War 'Plane London, January 16

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 10

The R.A.F. Spitfire fighter, which was on show at the aero exhibition in Paris recently, flew from Le Bourget to Croydon this afternoon. It left Le Bourget at…

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Lord Londonderry on Appeasement "Petulant Lectures" Germans And War

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 6

A plea for better understanding between Britain and Germany was set forth by the Marquess of Londonderry in his book, "Ourselves and Germany," published in April,…

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French Fears of Italy Spanish Tension Increases Aid Barcelona Is Paris Faction Cry War Medals Returned London

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 1

French resentment of Italian intervention in Spain is placing a further grave strain on the relations between Paris and Rome. General Franco's recent successes have caused…

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Gas Masks and War 'Planes Air Raid Precautions Puzzle Shadow Factory Plan (Special Correspondent: Air Mail.) LONDON, December 30

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 January 1939 · page 13

One of our many air raid precautions puzzles: who owns the 38,00,000 masks issued free to civilians during the crisis, and which citizens still retain?…

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Will Not Mix Pig-iron and Recruiting Adamstown Returned Men's Discussion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 3

When the dispute concerning the export of pig iron intruded into a discussion on the recruiting campaign at the annual meeting of the Adamstown sub-branch of…

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Japan in War-time London, December 13

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 January 1939 · page 8

A WORD picture of Japanese me in war-time comes from a correspondent resident in Tokio. He writes:— Japan has been at war with China for…

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He Escaped From War Zone Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 1

"The Japanese soldiers in China were most suspicious and offensive towards Englishmen," said Dr. T. A. Watson,…

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SWORD-RATTLING v. War Capacity London, January 3

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 6

FRITZ STERNBERG, a clever German economist now living in exile, in his book, "A Lightning War," thinks that despite all the sacrifices imposed on the German people by…

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Britain to Inquire Canadian War 'Planes Diverted to Spain OTTAWA, January 18

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 12

The Canadian Government is asking the British Foreign Office to investigate is Turkey the revelation that 40 Canadian aeroplanes were shipped to Turkey…

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Suddenness of War "Something Like Bush Fires," Says Mr. Hughes ORANGE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 13

"No one could tell in the week before the bush fires that their menace was upon us." said the Minister in charge of Recruiting (Mr. W. M. Hughes) at a…

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Many Escapes N.Z. Doctor in Eastern War Zone Raids on Hospitals Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 13

Dr. T. A. Watson, a New Zealander, who arrived in Sydney today from the East, gave a graphic account of his escape from the war zone…

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Help If Australia Attacked Ex-Servicemen Willing Mayfield Returned Soldiers Meet

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 17

Waratah-Mayfield Sub-branch the Returned Soldiers' League decides at its annual meeting last night to advise the central committee of its members'…

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Cheque for Returned Soldiers Adamstown Women's Aid

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 5

The Adamstown sub-branch of the Returned Sailors' League benefited by £22 as a result of the work of the Women's Auxiliary last year. The cheque was…

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