Nearing the Objective Recruiting Campaign Big Rise In Enlistments
Figures released to-day by Newcastle district militia units disclosed that the objective of the recruiting campaign is in…
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 9 of 129
Plenty of Life in the Old Soldiers Sydney
Enthusiasts in Sydney and Melbourne are a little dubious about the present form of some of the A.I.F. earn which is to play in Melbourne…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Ku Klux Klan At War With Unions New York, December 23
war has been declared between American Labor in the State of Georgia and the Ku Klux Klan, and already spasmodic outbreaks of violence have marked the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Was Going to War Britain's Answer to Hitler Mr. Bruce Tells Vigorous Defence of Empire SYDNEY
Mr. Chamberlain, in rejecting Herr Hitler's terms for the Czechoslovakian settlement "committed Britain to war to defy this…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Elected for Sixth Year in Succession Returned Soldiers' Officials
For the sixth year in succession the President (Mr. G. H. Shaw) and the Secretary (Mr. H. G. Peters) were elected at the annual meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →70 Women Enlist Voluntary Service Drive
The recently formed Newcastle Women's Voluntary Services enrolled 70 recruits yesterday, thus doubling the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Returned Men's Battalion ? Mayor to Call Meeting
The Mayor (Aid. G. W. Jenner) announced to-day that he had called a public meeting for February 21 to…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Spanish War Films Shown in Newcastle
The care of the health of men, women and children in Republican Spain was dealt with in one of a series of four sound films shown by the Spanish Relief…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →20Th Century Winning War on Disease Melbourne
It was his firm belief that most of the problems of disease would be overcome in the course of the present century, said the Director of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Family Shaved by Wife Learned Art During The War
Barber Ivy Wallace. 34. of Leithroad, Bow, London, shaves her husband and the four other menfolk of the family as well…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Older Models for Britain U.S. War Equipment WASHINGTON, February 7
President Roosevelt told a Press conference to-day that the manufacture of American anti-aircraft equipment had been speeded up by the sale of older…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Winnipeg As Empire Capital In Event of European War WINNIPEG, February 8
Mr. Stanley Shale, of London, representative of the Royal Academy of Music here, said: "Winnipeg may become the Empire capital. It is very probable that…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →South Africa Two National Anthems to Remain Vote in House of Assembly Union's Attitude to War (Australian Associated Press.) Cape Town, February 8
The House of Assembly, by 88 votes to 22, rejected tho Natinoalist Party's proposal that "Die Stem" should forthwith be recognised as South Africa's only…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Returned Soldiers Indignant Treatment by Council Hamilton Club Room 'Promise Was Not Honoured'
Speakers at a meeting of the Hamilton sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League last night strongly criticised the action of the Greater Newcastle Council…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Town Clerk Replies Returned Soldiers and Dance Hall
The Town Clerk of Newcastle (Mr. C. Wells) to-day replied to criticism at a meeting of Hamilton sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' Leagu last night of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock Soldiers' Auxiliary
The first of a series or musicales conducted by the Women's Auxiliary of the Cessnock Returned Soldiers' League was held at the Cessnock…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Roosevelt's Arms Plan Supported "War May Come at an Early Date" Defences Inadequate Improvement Urgently Needed (Australian Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, February 8
Declaring that war may come on Europe at an early date, the Military Affairs Committee of the House, of Representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Japanese Soldier Finds War Gloomy Many Have Little Hopes of Seeing Homes Again PEIPING
The war in China is getting to be a pretty gloomy business to the average Japanese soldier. So gloomy, in fact, that he is beginning to talk about it, but not very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Who Stopped the War
The man who stopped the war—he gave the "Cease Fire" signal on the Western Front—retires on January 9 from the Post-office. He is Mr. F. H. Pennington…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Belgian Cabinet Resigns Echo of the Great War LONDON, February 10
A Brussels message states that the Belgian Cabinet has resigned as a result of, the withdrawal of the Liberals' support following the appointment of Dr. Martens…
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