Trade Unionist on War Work London, March 5
Mr. William Westwood, General Secretary of the Ship Constructors and Shipwrights' Association, has taken up duties in the new Admiralty Department for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1940
4,844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 44 of 243
Mature in Seven Years Issue of War Savings Certificates
War savings certificates of £1, £5 and £10 will be issued in Newcastle this week. No person will be entitled to purchase or own certificates at a…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →BRITISH G.P.S. System Doomed by War ? LONDON
Britain's famous public schools will be "done" after the war. This is the view of one of the most famous of British educationists Sir…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Luxury Money for War Bonds Defence League's Suggestion SYDNEY
Representatives of the National Defence League of Australia to-day suggested to the Acting Federal Treasurer (Mr. P. C. Spender) that a movement…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →All Polo Fixtures Abandoned Young Players at War SYDNEY
Because of the war, the New South Wales Polo Association to-day decided to abandon all fixtures for the coming season…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Labour War Policy Endorsed Mr. Curtin on Corio KALGOORLIE
"I regard the result of the Corio by-election as an indication of agreement by the electors with our criticism of the Government and with the major portion…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Can Get on with Job Now" Reply to Women War Workers
There was now no bar to women's war work organisations in Newcastle making an immediate start with the making of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tool Machines for War Industries Big Purchases in U.S. CANBERRA
The Federal Government hopes to avoid drastic requisitioning of tool machines for war industries through the Allied Purchasing Commission. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →New British War Loan £300,000,000 is Amount LONDON, March 5
In the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir John Simon) announced the issue of a new war loan, limited to £300,000,000 sterling, for from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Part Payment of War Debts Demand in U.S. for British Islands (Australian Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, March 5
Senator Robert Reynolds and Mr. Jennings Randolph have introduced resolutions in Congress seeking to authorise President Roosevelt to negotiate with…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Merewether Soldiers Farewelled
Members of the Second A.I.F. and a number of sailors were tendered a public farewell by the Merewether Send-off and Welcome Home Committee at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lonely Soldiers Want Correspondents
Mrs. M. Bennett has received a letter from the Officer in Charge of the 2/9th (Queensland) Battalion, acknowledging receipt of 25 pairs of socks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suburban and District Wallsend Returned Soldiers Proposal to Farewell Local A.I.F. Men
At the adjourned annual meeting last night of Wallsend sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League, officers were elected as follows—President, Mr. W…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldiers Cross Frontier and Are Interned Brussels
Two British soldiers in France accidentally crossed the Belgian border and entered a cafe. When they discovered their,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Soldiers Captured on Western Front London
A German attack on the western Front to-day captured an outpost occupied by the B.E.F. and several British soldiers were taken prisoners…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Preference to Ex-soldiers Complaint Made At Muswellbrook MUSWELLBBOOK
Delegate from Weston, Abermain, Cessnock, West Maitland, East Maitland, Kurri, Denman and Muswell-brook met here for the quarterly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Allies' War Aims
Sir,—Mr. Chamberlain, stating the Allies' war aims, said that they were "fighting for the freedom of the individual conscience, the freedom of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War and Christianity
Sir,—May I comment on Bishop F. de Witt Batty's sermon on March 3. The Bishop suggests that the Allies had no alternative but to take up arms against…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →War News Flashes
Britain has decided to seize eight of the nine German coal cargoes to Italy. The ninth will be allowed to pass, as the vessel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hurried Plans for War Wedding
War waits for no man and no woman. Miss Thelma Stewart, of Hamilton, and Driver Cyril John Bath, also of Hamilton, had planned to be married, probably in…
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