Exploring Avenues of Taxation Seeking Sinews of War Canberra
Proposals to finance Australia's participation in the war will shortly be considered by the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1939
2,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 69 of 129
Pride in Empire's Airmen "They Will Win the War" London
"Britain will win this war hands-down by virtue of the type of young men offering to serve in her Air Force."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Warsaw's Honourable Defeat Another Chapter of Its War-torn History Closes
Warsaw, which ranks in size among the first half dozen cities in Europe, is reported to have abandoned its fight against the Nazis. To-day, after a slegs lasting 22 days, the city is a shambles, but its defeat has been an honourable one. Nothing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Lack of English War News Curious Psychological Reaction LONDON, September 28
Commenting on the look of English war news the London correspondent of the Brussels newspaper “Nation Belge” says that this has created a curious…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Navy and Air Force Expansion Plans War Cabinet at Work Melbourne
Extensive expansion of the Navy and Air Force will result from the series of meetings of the War Cabinet…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →N.Z. Airmen for Britain 1300 Each Year of War Dominion Undertaking Wellington (N.z.)
New Zealand had promised to supply Great Britain with 1300 pilots, observers and air gunners for every year of the war, said the Minister for Defence (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Safety Zone for Shipping United States' Proposal Keeping War From Americas (Australian Associated Press.) Panama City, September 28
The safety zone for American shipping, proposed before the conference of Pan-American States on neutrality problems, would extend for more than 3000 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →No Replacements Enlistments From Civil Service SYDNEY
The Premier (Mr. A. Mair), in reply to a question as to what would be done to fill the places of members of the Public Service who served in the militia or…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Enlistment of Public Servants Pay Position Is Defined Sydney
State public servants called up for militia training will not be allowed to spend their holidays in camp and thus draw militia pay…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Soldiers Enjoy Their Soccer
Men from a British anti-aircraft battery, "somewhere in Kent," enjoy football in the shadow of their guns…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Challenge of Sentry Disregarded Woman in Car Wounded Melbourne
Mm. Arthur Pickworth. the wife of a returned soldier, was shot and seriously wounded last night when the driver of the car…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Giant Liners Play Safe in War
With submarines active, the giant Atlantic liners, Queen Mary (above) and Normandie (at left) are playing safe. Both are berthed…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →A Water Line and a War Line
The wood stave section of the Chichester-Newcastle water supply The new steel pipe line, to supplement the flow from Chichester, will lie in the cutting on the hill at left…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →First Australian War Casualty Officially Reported Melbourne
The first Australian casualty in, the war was notified to-day, when his relatives in Melbourne were informed by the British Air Ministry that Acting Wing-Commander Ivan McLeod Cameron, 29, formerly or Bealiba Station, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Expansion of Defence Programme War Cabinet's Discussions MELBOURNE
The War Cabinet in Sydney on Tuesday will resume discussions on the expansion of Australia's defence programme and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Iron Discipline in Germany Precludes Opposition to War LONDON, September 10
The "Daily Mail's" Bale correspondent says that Swiss who have arrived there from Berlin declare that while nobody in Germany wants war, iron discipline…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Child Victim Of Horrors Of War . . .The Rains That Came Too Late
VICTIM OF WAR THIS LITTLE Polish lad, injured during a raid on Warsaw, in which his mother…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Higher Postal Rates War Measure in N.Z. Wellington (N.z.)
Increased postage, telegram, and trunk line telephone call rates were announced to-day. Forming part of war taxation measures,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Carved Out of Many Pre-war Countries The Racial Problems of Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia, which occupies an uncomfortable spot in the Balkan Peninsula, will celebrate its 21st birthday at the end of this year, for it came into being as an entity among the nations on December 1, 1918…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →War Goods From Canada Uninterrupted Flow to Britain Convoy System Defeats Submarines New York, September 20
The censorship previously barred from newspapers one of the greatest Canadian stories of the war—how the senior Dominion is supplying the Motherland with…
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