Youth to Fight and Elders to Pay Minister on War Tasks Huge Expenditure On Supplies MELBOURNE
"Young people must learn to bear arms and the elder people must learn to bear taxes." said the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1939
2,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 66 of 129
Pay for Men in Camp Long Discussion by Cabinet Likely Meet To-day on War Problems Melbourne
The rate of pay to be given militiamen in camp is likely to cause long discussion to-day when the Federal Cabinet meets to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →First War Loan in December Small Investors to be Catered for "Problem in Next Three Months" Sydney
The Federal Government is expected to go on the internal market for the first war loan about December. At the same time the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Reich War Aims Achieved German Radio Claim "Has No Quarrel with Britain, France" (Australian Associated Press.) New York, September 25
A German official broadcast in English, intercepted in New York, declared that with the redrafting of Poland's frontiers the Reich had…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →First Three Weeks Stocktaking of War Nazi Move Soon? Soviet May Have Surprise (Australian Associated Press.) New York, September 24
"A stocktaking after the first three weeks of war indicates," says the Paris correspondent of the "New York Times," "that a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ex-soldiers Not to Visit New Zealand Sydney
"Because of the announcement that fares would be substantially increased, the Returned Soldiers' League has abandoned plans for a visit of a contingent of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Girl Guides to Knit for Soldiers
The Commisioner for Girl Guides, Mrs. E. J. Rutter, of Parkway-avenue, Hamilton, will shortly start a knitting class at her home, and Guides and Brownies may…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Old Soldiers Never Die"
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Continued on Trove, page 6 →Special Exams. for Student Soldiers Sydney
The University Professorial Board will hold during the rest of this year special examinations as required for students who undertake war work for…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →To Enlist with British Army Medical Corps Melbourne
Dr. Ivan Page, second son of Sir Earle Page, will leave for England within a few days to enlist with the Army Medical Corps of the Br[?]h Imperial…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Poultry Farmers' War Fund
The poultry Farmers' Association of New South Wales, in coopleration with the Egg Marketing Board, appeals to poultry farmers to donate a penny a case…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Jan Kiepura's War Role Enlisted in Polish Legion in France LONDON, September 20
Jan Kiepura, the Polish tenor and film hetor, and his wife, formerly Mille, Marta Eggerth, the Hungarian film actress, arrived at Lisbon (Portugal) yesterday, on…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →1914 and Now War Efforts Compared
Memory is a treacherous thing and it is very difficult to make an accurate comparison of the state of preparedness for war…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Risk Cargo Rate for Australia London
The war risk cargo rate to or from Australia via Panama has been fixed at 30s per cent. instead of 20s The rate on the Cape Route is 60s per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Stop Press Allied War Aims. London, September 26
The Prime Minister (Mr. Neville Chamberlain) said in the House of Commons that the Government was in constant consultation with the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"End in Revolution" If Italy Entered War MELBOURNE
If Italy entered the war against England it would result in a revolution Italy, said Father Burke, of Toowoomba diocese, who reached Melbourne to-day,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Gandhi Sees Viceroy on Britain's War Aims Simla
Gandhi had a conference with the Viceroy (Lord Linlithgow) to-day. It is believed that they discussed Britain's war aims and her future…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Manchukuo's Pocket War in Retrospect Armistice Ended "Battle of Communiques"
Some day, maybe, the fighting between Russia and Japan on the Manchukuo frontier, recently concluded by an armistice, will be known as "the Battle of Communiques." On paper—the official communique kind of paper—both countries had tremendous…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Training for N.Z. Troops Wellington (N.z)
Skirled along by a pipe band, the first 100 officers and N.C.O.'s of New Zealand's special force marched through Wellington to-day and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian War Cabinet Meets Important Decisions This Week? Melbourne
When the War Cabinet meeting adjourned this afternoon the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) said that a series of important decisions should be…
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