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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
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The Federal Government during the next few months is likely to encounter constitutional difficulties in planning war-time and post-war economy. In some…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Year's Eve was the gayest night since the war began. Theatres, restaurants, and night clubs were open until 2 a.m. The French toasted British…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →They could win the war only as a united people. Influences tending to disturb or mar that unity had to be set aside. There must be no profiteering,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early this morning Constable William C. Plummer saved Sergeant John D. Honey, of Ingleburn camp, from being run down by a train at the Town Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Victoria League concluded a busy week-end of activities with a New Year's dance for members of the Second A.I.F. in the Recreation Hall in Scott-street…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Enlistment and medical examination of young men in the age group to be called up for compulsory military training will begin in Newcastle and West Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pending the construction of the proposed base hospital for troops encamped in New South Wales, emergency accommodation for sick soldiers will be provided in State…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"It does not seem right that men going to fight for the country should have to search for a place to lie down. The least we…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →An official survey of the defence of South Africa emphasises the nation's unity und cooperation in the Dominion's war effort. All…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MDALADIER'S vision of a better Europe after the war is one which will appeal to all peace-loving men. To the vast majority of mankind war is the ultimate curse. Out of the last war arose the League of Nations and if it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE ALLIES attacked on the Western Front and captured trenches in the Meonilles-Hunles region. The Allies gained many positions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THERE seems to be little doubt that the Russian campaign against the Finns has so far failed. The Red Army was intended to carry out theoretical and theatrical "blitzkrieg."…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Voluntary organisations are working' at full speed in establishing canteens as close as seven miles to the Western Front…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Standing beside an anti-aircraft battery, Captain Balfour, Under-Secretary for Air, watched British planes and anti-aircraft guns drive off the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →In peacetime, 85,000 vehicles a year were turned out by this English motor car factory. Now, in common with many other great manufacturing concerns, it has been turned over to the Ministry of Supply, and concentrates on the production of army trucks. It is equipped with special welding machines…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The transfer of the administrative headquarters of New Guinea from Rabaul will probably be postponed indefinitely by the Federal Government…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tonight or not to fight Russia—this question of future Allied policy has suddenly gripped public attention here as commentators have begun to discuss it almost to the exclusion of events in Western Europe…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Those of us who remember the last war must believe that the net results of this war will be the impoverishment of the people," said the General Secretary of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Railway travellers paid more than £4700 in fares at the Newcastle station during the Christmas and New Year holiday period. This represents a substantial…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Returned Soldiers' Sub-branches in the Newcastle district are concerned because no apparent effort is being made to ascertain how many men from the…
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