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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
4,844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 243
How shall Australia's economic structure be speeded up to meet the tremendous demands of war? Will it be necessary to nationalise wealth and conscript labour in the interests of national defence?…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mammoth tank Striking examples of France's was power. In the top picture the "Normandie," named after the crack French luxury liner, Smashes down a forest tree. Below, it is shown emerging from a river…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The war has practically stopped migration to Australia, Lieut-Colonel Imrie, of the Salvation Army, who arrived in Perth, said that, compared with a decade…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The nerves of tired typists are likely to be more seriously strained by this war than those of the trained soldier, writes Dr. H…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ever since armies have fought they have swung: along to the tune of a soldier's ditty. Stirring songs, comic songs, sentimental…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"We must defeat the Hitler in Germany without enthroning the Hitler to our own heart or in our own society," states the Bishop of Goulburn (Rt. Rev…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In spite of the great calls due to war made on the Southern Railway, modernisation of Waterloo city railway, which in the original "twopenny tube," has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Members of the War Cabinet expressed keen satisfaction to-day at the gunnery display of an Australian cruiser. The cruiser was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The U.S. Treasury has revealed that in October Britain and France liquidated 100,000,000 dollars (£31,250,000 Australian) of their United States assets-mostly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Following a street battle between Australian slaughtermen and New Zealand soldiers in Christchurch on Saturday night, four Australians were fined £5 each…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World attention is concentrating on the conference of the Balkan Entente Powers—Yugoslavia, Turkey, Rumania and Greece—to be held at Belgrade on Friday. Repercussions are expected which will affect the oil…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The office of the organiser of the Newcastle Patriotic and War Fund (Mr. C. J. A. Beaumont) has been moved from its original position in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The organiser of the Patriotic and War Fund (Mr. C. J. A. Beaumont) wants to know who holds ticket No. 14, the winning number in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The "Surprise" Federal election in Canada, to take place in March, is likely to have little effect on the Dominion's war effort. The main question to be settled by the vote is whether…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →America's censorship policy with mails, when she was a belligerent in 1918, was identical with present British policy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE German artillery has been mastered by the Allies at Nieuport. M. Pegoud, French aviator, discovered a German explosive depot while…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It was authoritatively estimated to-day, that since the outbreak of war Australia had p[?] orders with the United Kingdom for wool, wheat, meat and other products to the value of between £120,000,000 and £130,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →An announcement can be expected in a few days of a plan to make St. John (New Brunswick), which is outside the war zone…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The first casualty list issued by the War Office, covering all casualties to December 31, gives 758 names…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The worst air raids of the war in Finland took place yesterday. Soviet planes dropped bombs and turned machine-guns not only on…
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