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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 70 of 129
President Roosevelt, in his conference with the Press, reiterated his conviction that the United States would be able to keep out of the war in Europe. The forces in favor of revision of the Neutrality…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"It is an emergency Budget designed to help the nation to face the realities of the situation," said the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon),…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Plans for the formation of two garrison battalions of returned soldiers were announced to-day. Enrolments will be made from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) announced to-day that Major-General Sir Thomas Blamey had been appointed by the War…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Russia and Germany are reported to have reached an agreement to cooperate with other friendly powers to end the war between the Allies and Germany. They claim that with the liquidation of Poland there is no…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Germany was sure to seek an early pretext for the bombing of open towns, with the massacre…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The High Commissioner (Mr. Bruce) has assured the Agents General that Australia was in a more favorable position than…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Germany is fighting a propaganda war in South America as efficiently and as ruthlessly as she fought her military campaign in Poland, says the correspondent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proposals to finance the huge cost of Australia's participation in the war will shortly be considered by the Commonwealth Government. Preliminary investigations have already been made into…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Declaring that the heavily increased taxation in New South Wales was not due to war expenditure or depreciation of revenues…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It seemed certain that there would be a stalemate on the Siegfried and Maginot Lines, and that the war would be won in the air, declared the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Vivid news of the Western war front has been brought to London by Miss Laurie Steele, the Australian air hostess, who for the past 14 months has been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"The impressions I got in Germany were appalling. Here was a country going to war like a sleep-walker with a loaded…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Some important moves on the Western front are expected shortly as the result of yesterday's conference between the French…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →From 9 a.m. to-day hundreds of cheerful young men were medically examined as a preliminary to enlistment in the 8th Division, the special force…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Proudly displaying their A.I.F. badges, many hundreds of Diggers to-day applied for enlistment in the new Garrison Battalions, recruiting for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Although it was a public holiday in Sydney to-day some thousands of men, including a large proportion of returned soldiers, visited…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sir,—We are given to understand that whatever the cost this war will not cease until the world-menacing system of Nazi oppression and conquest has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sir,—The war in Europe is not a war "for democracy" or to "restrain aggressors," bat is simply a natural continuation of the competitive straggles of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MORE THAN 60 returned soldiers attended Newcastle West Drill Hall yesterday to enlist in the special garrison forces. About 40 per cent. of the men…
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