U.S. Liner for War Trade New York, March 4
After having been idle for five years, the 15-575-ton liner President Fillmore is to enter the war trade on Saturday. Formerly owned by the Dollar S.S…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1940
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Banned by Censor Film About 1914-18 War SYDNEY
The film, "The Fighting 69th," a Warner Brothers' picture, telling the story of the 69th New York Regiment during the World War, has been banned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War Funds in the Lake' Shire Local Or Central Control ?
Should Lake Shire Patriotic War Fund organisations function under the direction of the Newcastle control or move to act…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Not Allowed to Speak Man at War Fund Meeting Organiser's Salary Increased
Mr. Grahame Bland, who described himself as "a representative of Newcastle's greatest organisation—the general public," was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Do Australian Troops Need Pyjamas? Women War Workers Complain Fund Organiser Has Solution
Should the provision of comforts for Australian troops abroad be left to the womanly intuition of war workers? Do soldiers need…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Orders From Moscow Mr. Hughes Attacks Communists "Trying to Hamper War Effort" Sydney
The Communist Party was bitterly attacked by the Federal Attorney-General (Mr. W. M. Hughes) in a National broadcast to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Victoria League Entertains Queensland Soldiers on Leave
During Sunday and yesterday many Queensland soldiers, who were passing through Newcastle from Ingleburn on their way home for final leave, called in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Told Soldiers Do Not Wear Pyjamas Women Anxious to Make Comforts
A COMPLAINT that women in Newcastle were anxious to make comforts for soldiers, but were being prevented from doing so, was made at a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →2 N D A.I.F. May Be Members Returned Soldiers' Annual Meeting
Members of the Second A.I.F. will be eligible for membership of the Returned Sailors and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Here and There in the Suburbs Merewether Soldiers' Party To-night
Merewether soldiers, who have enlisted with the Second A.I.F. Forces, will be the guests of the Send off and Welcome Home Committee at…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Send-off to Soldiers Hamilton Function
Presentations are to be made to soldiers from Hamilton who will be leaving with the second contingent of the 2nd A.I.F at a send-off at Hamilton…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War News Flashes
Whether or not Australia, in order to conserve foreign currency, could buy larger quantities of oil from the Anglo-Iranian Company Instead of from the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"War on Community"
Sir,—The commissars or false prophets of the unions have completed their propaganda to induce the mining unions to vote to-day for a general strike. It…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Suggestions for War Comforts
On Monday night the women's committee of the Newcastle and District Patriotic and War Fund was granted £200 for the purchase of materials for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War News in Pictures
An American-made bomber is towed across the border into Canada. Because of neutrality law restrictions, American-made planes are flown to sparsely-settled prairie sections and towed into Canada before they can be flown to a port for delivery to England…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Put on Weight at War
HE GAINED 42lb in weight during the 1914-18 war, said a witness at the hearing of a claim by the Newcastle and District Deputies and Shotfirers'…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The War 25 Years Ago
THE ARMY Medical Corps reports shoring injuries to the soldiers through German contrivances for spraying petrol in the trenches. The Germans…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Loan Applications Canberra
More than 1500 individual applications were lodged to-day for subscriptions to the Commonwealth £18,000,000 War Loan, said the Acting Treasurer (Mr. P. C…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New British War Loan, Next Week London
"A three per cent, war isn't expensive," is the phrase which sums up much of the comment on the new British war loan of £300,000,000. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Film Banned in Ontario Ottawa, March 5
The Premier of Ontario (Mr. Mitchell Hepburn) has banned the screening in Ontario of the March of Time Film, "Canada at War." He declared that the…
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