War News Flashes
The motor ship Antonio Delfino (13,589 tons) one of the largest German liners in the South American…
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 36 of 243
The War 25 Years Ago
A WOMAN offered herself for enlistment at Victoria Barracks, Sydney, as a motor driver. She was thanked, but her offer was…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →War Fund Control Objections in Suburbs
Objection to control by the Newcastle District Patriotic and War Fund of funds of suburban patriotic committees was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War and the Weather Winters That Changed Destiny
One of the things that people have missed in England and France, and Germany as well for that matter, since the outbreak break of war has been the familiar voice of the wireless announcer reading out the weather forecast…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Mr. Menzies Taunts Labour Several War Policies MELBOURNE
Supporting the U.A.P. candidate in the Corio by-election campaign, the Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) at Sunshine to-night asked Labour supporters which…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Should Christians Make War? Some Differing Opinions (To the Editor.)
Sir,—May I present another side to considerations published in your paper on the above topic? "War is hell." Not only every Christian but every sane man…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Not German Monopoly Self-Sealing Petrol Tanks in War Planes
SEVERAL RECENT cable messages have mentioned the fact that the latest types of German bombing planes are fitted with bullet-proof and fire-proof…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Moscow Press Predicts U.S.A. Will Enter War Moscow
"Pravda," official Soviet newspaper, predicts that America will enter the war this year or next, "The United States is walking…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Prisoner of War Allowed to Go Home to Marry Amsterdam
An unspecified number of German Air Force officers and sergeants forced down in Holland are interned in a fortress near Edam. It has been revealed that all are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dominion War Effort Essential to Great Britain Canada's Commissioner at Show
"The United Kingdom would be sorely put to it to carry on in such an effort as is required to win this war if my country and yours were…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Rumania Fears War May Be Near Vast Army of 1,600,000 Men Red Fleet Looks to Oil Zone London
In the belief that war may come to the Balkans in the spring Rumania will reach a stage of almost general mobilisation by…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →He Finished One War to Study Soldiering
Viscount Go[?]t. Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in France, was born rich. At the end of the 1914-18 war he had won the V.C., the D.S.O. (three…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War News Flashes
In a desperate attempt to present Stalin with a victory on the Red Army's birthday, Russians stormed the Mannerheim Line…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Left One War To Prepare For The Next Gort's Passion Is Soldiering
Armistice Day, November 11,1918. Hundreds of thousands of us who had been soldiers for the alternately cheered with excitement and felt a sinking feeling in the stomach. What would we do now in the peace that stared us in the face?…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Athletes and War Fund Tug o' War for Fighting Services
Relay races and a tug o' war between the Navy, Fort Scratchley, Fort Wallace, Greta camp, and probably Rutherford came and the Air Force, will be features…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The War 25 Years Ago
A ZEPPELIN dropped bombs on Calais. There were five victims. Rheims was violently bombarded on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Taking the War Too Lightly
THE indictment of "Mumbling Minnie" grows stronger day by day. Apathy born of lack of news is one thing: careless optimism born of "success stories," or suppression of facts, can be even…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Control May Stay After the War
A SUGGESTION that the wool trade may find it more difficult to shed control after this war than it did after the last, was made by Mr. A. N. Shimmin, the noted economist, of Leeds University,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Economic Factor in War London, February 23
Major-General Sir Charles Gwynn to-day replied to the argument that is sometimes heard to the effect that the war is bound to end in a stalemate…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War And Winter In Europe... Royal Air Force Photo. Of Heligoland
Frozen over in Europe's bitter winter, parts of the English coast were ice-bound. Ice-floes on the shore near Bognor, [?] eligoland—as seen by the R.A.F. This aerial photo, taken Dy Royal Air Force planes on a reconnaissance [?] the new barber (A) war vassals (J)anti-aircraft battery (O. and gun position (R)…
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