Marching To War
Human sidelights as English troops leave for the Western Front.—A girl friend (with gas mask) accompanies her lad some of the way, and a Tommy falls out to bestow a pat on a small admirer…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1939
2,574 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 80 of 129
This "Funny War"
M. HENRI BIDOU, of the "Intranslgeant," replies to those who say "This is a funny war" by defending the inactivity of the Allies. A funny war—in the sense of being strange—this war is. It sets…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Comments on the War News
The torpedoing of the battleship Royal Oak, following the loss of the aircraft carrier Courageous, constitutes a naval reverse which is regrettable…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victoria League's Services During The War
London headquarters of We Victoria League have advised the Newcastle League that the organisation should be kept in being in war as in peace…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Try Sea War First," Is Nazi Policy Stockholm
Swedish correspondents in Berlin emphasise the importance which the Nazis attach to their fight for sea power. The Nazis declare that a continued…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Prepared for War England's Underground Factories Newcastle Man's Tour
There is one man in Newcastle who has some inside knowledge of England's military preparations for the war. But in an interview yesterday he was very…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →U.S. Exports Rise First Month of War WASHINGTON, October 14
Exports from the United States during September showed an increase of 14 per cent. above the total for August, despite the fact that German and Polish…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"War Will Not End Empire" Hartley Grattan's View New York, October 14
The economist, Mr. Hartley Grattan, who recently visited Australia, has just published "The Deadly Parallel." In it he declares that President…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Allies Have Learned Lessons of the Last War How Unity of Command Was Delayed Till 1918
The announcement by the Secretary of State for War in the House of Commons, that the British troops in France are under the general direction of the French Commander-in-Chief, with the reservation that the British command has the right of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Waratah Cabaret Aid for Returned Soldiers' League
Waratah-Mayfield Women's Auxiliary of the Returned Soldiers and Sailors' League held a successful cabaret at the Waratah Town Hall on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ready for Duty in Fortnight Returned Soldiers at Showground
Returned soldier members of the 2nd Garrison Company, which entered camp on Friday, have settled down in their new surroundings…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ambassador Is Now Private Polish Soldier Paris
M. Lipiki, Formerly Polish Ambassador to Germany, who is now a private in the Polish Army in France, has married a refugee compatriot…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kurri Returned Soldiers' Smoke Social
Members of Kurri sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League held a smoke social in the Memorial Hall on Saturday night. Visitors from East…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Polish Soldiers in Refuge
The war over for them?—Disarmed Polish soldiers walk through a street of Ce[?]mauti, Rumania, near the Polish border…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War on Women and Babes U-boat Shells Liner Rain Of Death in The Darkness Scenes of Panic on French Vessel London
Brutally indifferent to the plight of the helpless passengers, a German submarine crew shelled the French passenger ship Bretagne at night, injuring women and leaving children floundering in the sea as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Woman Seriously Wounded Brisbane
Mrs. Ethel Warren, 28, was found unconscious on a bed at her home at Wolloongabba to-day. She had serious head wounds, apparently inflicted by a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War News Flashes
A daylight raid by 12 or 14 German air bombers on the naval base at Rosyth ended disastrously for the attackers yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Comments on the War News
The torpedo and the bomb have been used freely by the Germans in an attempt to press home that attack upon the British Navy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The War 25 Years Ago
THE AUTHORITIES in Germany estimate the total German losses in France and Belgium at 700,000 killed, wounded and missing, and an additional…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Plans for War and Peace
UPON several occasions German propaganda has sought to indicate the break-up of the British Empire by its comment on Australia's aloofness from the war effort of Great Britain. It is probable before the war ends that the Germans on the…
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