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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 129
A tremendous impetus to Australian primary and secondary industries is inevitable in face of the British Government's decision to buy the whole of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →BRITAIN suffered her first serious loss in the war at sea this week when the aircraft-carrier H.M.S. Courageous was suck by a German submarine. It…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A semi-official statement issued in London last night gave an answer to the question that is in many minds: "What have we done to help Poland?"…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The New South Wales Railways and Tramway Officers' Association to-day decided to vote £500 for patriotic purposes, and to raise another £1000 for similar…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →National Savings Certificates, to facilitate help from small investors in advancing Australia's war economy, are likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The 'Allied Supreme War Council met in an English town to-day, the Ministry of Information announces, reviewed developments since the meeting in France on September 14, and estimated their effect on future events…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New South Wales had scarcely entered upon its life when Britain was plunged into the long war with the great dictator, Napoleon Bonaparte, a war that lasted with scarcely a break over some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An organisation is to be formed in Sydney to arrange for the care and maintenance of selected British orphan. A provisional committee will be formed…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Though hundreds of inquiries have been made since the Prime Minister's announcement on Wednesday night, there is still no indication as to how…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →General von Fritsch, Commander-in-Chief of the German Army, until 1938, when he was removed from his post, was killed in action in the battle for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plans for a visit of a contingent of Australian was veterans to New Zealand in April have been abandoned…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In this historic picture, the Swordbearer and Acting Common Crier to the City of London (Mr. W. T. Boston) is reading the King's proclamation of war at the Mansion House on the morning of September 4. The police are wearing their special steel helmets and haversacks containing their gasmasks…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →All that was left of a railway station in Poland after Germany's bombing places had dropped their cargoes. A typical [?]cene in the line of the Nazi adraner…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The introduction of a system of national savings certificates, to enable small investors to contribute to war loans, will be discussed by the Assistants…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Polish Ambassador in Paris has directed all Polish males between 17 and 45 resident in France to register for military service…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"The vast mechanism for the transfer of the army as a going concern from England to France is thoroughly into its…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Air expeditionary forces represent the most useful and immediate help that the Dominions can give Britain in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Unlike the beginning of the last war, when the possibilities of the submarine as a potent force were still largely a matter of theory, the present conflict has begun with a striking demonstration of their value in modern warfare. Yet, If the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ten thousand Danes, who normally would not be called up until next summer, will be called to the colors within the next 10 weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Thousands of Jews have been arrested and hundreds have been executed in Lodz alone, he says. The Germans have been…
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