War News Flashes
All the passengers and crew aboard the Irish Channel steamer Munster, which was sunk after an explosion, were saved…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1940
4,844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 243
The War 25 Years Ago
The Allies are advancing on the Western Front. Many of the enemy in Egypt have deserted to the British. Some of the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Programme Affected by the War Abandoned Golf Championships
The possibility that leading players will be called up for military service prompted the decision of the Northern District…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Standardisation of Dress As Result of War? PARIS
Thanks to the service work distributed among them by the Government, the big dress houses have been able to keep together staffs they thought they would have to dismiss, and now some of them are taking on again the excellent sewing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Problems of Golf in War-time London, January 20
Shortly before war was declared, the British golfing authorities announced the names of their Ryder Cup team. The…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →End Nazism, Win Peace Labour's War Aims COOLANGATTA
"We will never end our efforts to destroy Nazism and all it stands for, but we are also out to win the peace. I want you to carry the slogan, Labour is out…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Must Seek Permits to Collect Warning Issued by War Fund
A warning that organisations operating in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie districts for the raising of war funds, which had not…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Tax Rise Certain Next Year Meet Heavy War Spending CANBERRA
War taxation proposals for 1940-41, which will he considered by Federal Cabinet next week, are certain to entail added financial liabilities for Australian citizens…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cabinet May Drop Car Project Devote All Resources to War Experts Against "Luxury Goods" Canberra
Authoritative quarters state that the Economic Cabinet next week may consider the advisability of dropping until after the war the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three-year War May Cost Britain £8,000,000,000 She Bore Biggest Burden of 1914-18
Sir John Simon, in a recent broadcast, revealed that the war is already costing Great Britain alone £6,000,000 a day. As the Expeditionary Force increases, more aeroplanes are purchased, and the Navy acquires more and more ships, the cost…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Merewether Soldiers
The Secretary of the Merewether Sendoff and Welcome Home Committee (Mrs. A. Rodgers), 31 Hunter-street, Merewether, desires to obtain the names and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Successful Year Waratah-Mayfield Soldiers' Auxiliary
A successful year's work was reviewed by the Waratah-Mayfield branch of the Returned Soldiers' Women's Auxiliary at its first annual meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War News Flashes
In the House of Commons the Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain, pricked many inflated German claims and put the much vaunted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War 25 Years Ago
THE LATEST communique states: The enemy exploded mines outside our positions at La Boiselle and two half-companies assaulted our line…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Nazi War Plan Delayed by Ribbentrop
ONE of the main reasons for the delay in the expected sudden burst of frightfulness at the outbreak of war was the Russo-German pact's unsettling effect on Nazi war plans, for which…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stop Press Chamberlain Reviews War. London, February 8
Speaking in the House of Commons on the progress of the war, the Prime Minister said that the recent weeks of winter which had gripped Europe…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Toll of Merchant Seamen in War London
To the end of January 431 merchant seamen had died and 235 had been injured as a result of enemy action. The Parliamentary Secretary to the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr. Thorby Asks for Clearer War Policy Sydney
An appeal to the Federal Government to clarify its war Policy was made to-day by the Deputy leader of the Federal Country Party (Mr. H. V. C. Thorby)…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Chamberlain's Speech (Continued from page 1) Supreme War Council
Mr. Chamberlain referred to the Supreme War Council meeting in Paris last Monday. The Council, he said, now conducted…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Move to Produce Own Drugs Prevent War Shortage CANBERRA
Successful experiments have been carried out in Australia in growing plants for the extraction of certain pharmaceutical drugs which may he short during…
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