Floating War Loan Canberra
The floating of a war loan is being considered by Federal Cabinet. It is likely that the first issue will be offered before the end of the year…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1939
2,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 63 of 129
Labor Council Calls Conference to Discuss War Problems
Newcastle Labor Council has convened a conference of unions. Parliamentarians and representatives of the Labor movement and other…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Stop Press Britain's War Budget. London, September 21
In the House of Commons this afternoon the Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) announced that the War Budget would be presented…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sides Leaving Cricket for War's Duration Melbourne
Frank Sides, the Victorian and former Queensland left-hand batsman, will leave for his home in Cairns to-morrow. preparatory to joining the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →NO 1914 DELAY Britain Organised for War LONDON, September 21
An official British communique comparing Great Britain's preparedeness in 1914 to now, points out that Lord Kitchener's appeal had been anticipated by many…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Woman's Realm the War Chest Newcastle Superintendent Looks Back to 1914
The possibility of an early revival of the Australian Wachest to supply comforts to soldiers, has brought many memories of 1914-1918 to the former superintendent of the Newcastle and Hunter River District War Chest Fund, Miss Dora Sparke,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oil Shortage in Long War Nullify German Air Superiority New York, September 21
Statistics showing that the entire crude oil production of countries able to supply Germany were inadequate for the requirements of the Nazi mechanised army and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Hitler Was Bent on War White Paper Facts Talks with British Envoy Disclosed London
Germany had nothing, but Britain had much to lose by war, Herr Hitler declared to the British Ambassador at Berlin (Sir Nevile Henderson) in the fateful last days before hostilities began, and he…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Victorian Quota Passed New A.I.F. Enlistments MELBOURNE
Applications for enlistment in the special force of 20,000 to-day passed the 7000 mark in Melbourne. This exceeds the quota fixed for Victoria…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Ex-soldiers Cheer Governor "Must Get Rid of Hitlerism" Congress in Sydney Sydney
Cheering greeted the Governor (Lord Wakehurst) at the annual congress of the Returned Soldiers' League to-day when he said, "Just as we got rid of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Friendly Societies Protecting Soldier What Lodges Do in Time of War
"That this Grand Lodge hereby authorises the incoming Board of Directors to take the necessary steps, so that suitable provision can be made to continue…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Music and the War
EVEN WHEN THE EMPIRE is at war we must not, as Lady Gowrie reminds us, forget the arts. There is no need for the culture of a nation to disintegrate. It takes nothing from the war effort. Indeed, as it tends to keep the people happy and interested,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Silent War on Nazis
While the Poles Were fighting their losing battle against the Germans, there were some who wondered impatiently why the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Naturalist's Notebook Peace and War
In one of his books, Negley Farson tells of the garden of Shah H. Jehan in Delhi which has this Arabic inscription around a marble pillar: "If There Be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Review: King's Nurse Tells of War
SISTER CATHERINE BLACK ("King's nurse and beggar's nurse") has many friends in Australia, since her twelve months in the Commonwealth after the death of King George V…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Entertainment During War Warner Bros. Films That Are Due
"THE war will not affect Hollywood plans nor will there be any retrogressive trend in expenditure," said Mr. Ralph H. Clark, the managing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stop Press War Latest German Prisoners London, September 22
The Ministry of Information states in a communique that a number of German prisoner arrived to-day, and will go into a prison camp. Other…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →London Prepared Before War Mobilised Firefighters LONDON, September 22
The County Council Emergency Committee report reveals that Greater London mobilised 25,000 full-time auxiliary fire-service volunteers and several…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →War Policy of Britain Statement Is Sought London
In a letter to "The Times" Mr. Richard Boyer, president of the Warrego Graziers' Associa-tion (Queensland) appeals for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tinplate in War Time How Australia Helped Britain's Industry
Industrial, like political, memories are short, writes a correspondent of "The Age," Melbourne. Now that Britain's tinplaters are strenuously opposing the…
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