£30,000,000 Invested War Service Homes Sydney
To provide homes for returned soldiers and their dependents the Commonwealth Government had invested nearly…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1939
2,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 43 of 129
When Will War Come? "Sole Thought of People in Europe" SYDNEY
Mr. Renzie Rich, Chairman of directors and managing director of Bebarfalds Ltd., returned to Sydney to-day by the Mariposa. To travel in Europe to-day was to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Expected Soon War Planes for R.A.A.F. Sir Keith Smith Returns From Abroad Sydney
The first 10 of the 50 Lockheed Hudson planes ordered from America by the Federal Government should arrive here next month. The first of the Bristol…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Laugh at War Fear U.S.A. Tourists Flock To Great Britain Minister's Cheery Message to Nation London
Whire 3,000,000 Germans and Italians are under arms for manoeuvres there is no scare in Britain. War postponed might be war averted, declared Sir John Simon (Chancellor of the Exchequer) in a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The "Aussie" Is Typical Modern Soldier London
"The Australian and not the Prussian may be described as the typical soldier of the modern world," declared Lord Samuel In a speech to the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"Air War" Commences in Britain Raiders Are Detected "Enemy" Engaged By Bombers LONDON
The greatest mimic war in the history of the R.A.F. "broke out" at 8 o'clock to-night. "Westland," an imaginary State,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War Service Homes in Newcastle Govt.'s Part in Housing Minister Arrives To Inspect
Few people realised the part that the Federal Government had played in the development of homing in Newcastle,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Roosevelt Now Muzzled Can't Intervene for World Peace Will Blame Congress If War Starts New York
Owing to "the wrecking" by Congress of his neutrality legislation President Roosevelt says he will be unable to "avert war as I did in September and March."…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rome-berlin Axis Japan Considers Joining Up Cabinet Meets Members Question War Minister (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, August 8
A special meeting of, the Japanese Inner Cabinet was held to-day to discuss whether Japan should join the Rome-Berlin Axis…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Millions to Give Soldiers Homes Low Percentage of Arrears SYDNEY
The Minister in Charge of War Service Homes (Senator H. B. Collett) said to-day that the Commonwealth Government had spent £30,000,000 on real estate to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War Comrades Meet for First Time in 20 YEARS Senator Collett and General Paton
THE MINISTER for War Service Homes (Senator H. B. Collett) and war comrades for three years—in Gallipoli, Egypt, and France—met for the first…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Came to Study Problems But Found None in Newcastle Minister Pleased Inspected War Service Homes
The Minister for War Service Homes (Senator H. B. Collett) is delighted with his first visit to Newcastle. He came a long way…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Russian Arms for Poland In Event of War With Germany Claim in Warsaw Newspaper Warsaw, August 9
A sensation baa been created by an article which appeared in the "Politika Gospodarcza," the official organ of the Polish heavy industry, to-day stating that…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →King Reviews Mighty Fleet Memories Revived of Great War Days 133 Ships of Reserve Mass for Inspection London
Many war-time memories must have come to the King's mind to-day when he reviewed in Weymouth Bay the largest reserve fleet ever assembled in peace-time before a monarch…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Britain's Mock Air War 1300 Planes Take Part Bomber Fails to Return Search Made in North Sea (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, August 9
Planes and destroyers were still searching the North Sea this morning for a Wellington bomber which disappeared during the air…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →FROM 7 TO 70 German Civilians Must Enrol Place for All in War "Squeezing Last Drop of Efficiency Out" (Australian Associated Press.) BERLIN, August 9
A decree has been issued by the Reich Ministry of the Interior providing for a "people's register" of the entire civilian population…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Haste with War Book Mr. Menzies' Advice "Prudent and Ready" Melbourne
Making it clear that he did not wish to create a war scare but that Australia was prudent and ready should war break out, the Prime Minister (Mr. R. G…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →"War Spirit Never Stronger" Arm or Go Under, Says Lord Gowrie LAUNCESTON
"We should realist the futility and the cruelty of war and find some other way of settling international disputes than by international slaughter," said the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →MAITLAND—CESSNOCK—KURRI East Maitland Union Proposal Fails Returned Soldiers and Literary Institute
A proposal to amalgamate the East Maitland sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League and the East Maitland Literary Institute has not been…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Amalgamation Move Fails Soldiers' League And Institution
A conference arranged, for last night to discuss a proposal to amalgamate the East Maitland Sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League and the East…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →