War Won't Affect N.Z. Exhibition Wellington
Cabinet Ministers and the promoters of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition have decided that the exhibition will take place at the end…
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 48 of 129
Wireless by Wire British War Preparation
The system whereby a broadcasting service vice will be conveyed to listeners over the telephone wires, announced as a war preparation measure by the British…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Waging the War on Insects London. August 14
Striking evidence of the ceaseless warfare being waged throughout the British Empire between the medical scientist, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Churchill: Eden May Be in War Cabinet London
Full plans are ready to constitute a British War Cabinet, possibly including Winson Churchill and Anthony Eden…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Risk Rates Rise by 50 Per Cent. London
War risk rates for shipping have been increased by 50 per cent, as from to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Canada's Call to Arms Country On War Footing LONDON
The military, naval and air forces of Canada have been placed on an active war service footing, says a message from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →If Britain Goes to War Some of These Things May Be Happening Now
Behind the screen of censorship, significant movements for the defence of the Empire are taking place. Let us, with the eye of imagination, try to envisage them This resume of the possible and probable professes no inside information. It is no…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →£500,000,000 Voted to Wage War House of Commons Agrees London, Saturday Morning
The King at yesterday's meeting of the Privy Council signed a proclamation ordering complete mobilisation of the navy, army and air force…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Effect of War on Air Services Empire Mails May Be Flown Across The Pacific
WAR and the threat of war will always bring the possibility of disorganising, if not completely suspending, the major air lines of the world. For this reason…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Australia's Task in New Guinea Fine Progress Since War Inspired The Ideal Of Australian Federation
Strange though it may seem, New Guinea inspired the first strong surge of Federation sentiment which swept over six jealous Australian colonies. As early as 1883, Australians in these six divided…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Davis Cup and War Australians Fear Recall Bromwich's Form Improves (Australian Associated Press.) PHILADELPHIA, September 1
Members of the Australian Davis Cup team are wondering whether, like N. Brookes and A. Wedding, in 1914, they will win the cup, only to have the news of…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Repeal of Arms Embargo Roosevelt May Move Will Convene Congress "If War Seems Certain" New York, September 1
There is also considerable talk in Washington, according to the United Press, that President Roosevelt may re-convene Congress to discuss the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Crisis Is Hard on Nerves Londoners Not Afraid, But Exasperated "Like War Without Guns" (Special Correspondent: By Air Mail.) LONDON, August 18
One thing certain. We cannot continue to live indefinitely in a state of perpetual international crisis. The sense of existing on the edge of a volcano is…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →An Inevitable War
War has come, not like a bolt from the blue, but with the ominous inevitability of a storm which has slowly obscured the sky…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Germany Decrees War
THE hopes of the world have been shattered by German aggression. While Herr Hitler penned Notes to London he was penning the order which started the German bombers to their grim task over the Polish cities…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Formula of War Entry Sydney
The formal procedure by which Great Britain entered the war was that at 11.15 a.m. yesterday in London the head of the Treaty Department of the Foreign…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Duke Accepts War Post: Visit Deferred London
It is officially stated that as the Duke of Kent has taken up a war appointment his departure for Australia has been postponed indefinitely…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sport As Safety Valve to War Tension Sydney
During the Great War sport was not cast aside, but there were modifications. These enabled young men to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Church Bells Chimed England Into War Britons Are Not Downhearted London
The eleventh hour of this warm, breezy Sunday morning struck with church bells chiming England into War. A British Broadcasting Corporation announcement at 10 a.m. had indicated to all that only a fractional chance of peace…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Veterans Offer Services Rush By Men Over Military Age SYDNEY
In the spirit of patriotism that animated them in 1914, veterans of the Great War crowded into Returned Soldiers' League headquarters to-day,…
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