Enlistment for the Second A.I.F. Applications Can Now Be Made
Recruiting for the Second A.I.F. was resumed to-day and applications may now be made to area officers in Newcastle,…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1940
4,844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 52 of 243
Anzac March at Wickham
The Wickham-Carrington branch of the Returned Soldiers' League has decided to hold a separate Anzac Day celebration but so as not to clash…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War News Flashes
Mussolini left Rome yesterday for a secret meeting with Hitler on Italian soil near the Brenner Pass…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War 25 Years Ago
A FANTASTIC and uncanny feature of the fighting in France and Flanders is the extensive use of illuminating rockets. The Germans initiated the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Certificates Popular The "Small Man's" Savings
Indications this morning were that the War Savings Certificate system introduced by the acting Treasurer (Mr. Spender) to raise money in small…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Exhibition Tennis for War Fund To-night
The tennis exhibition arranged by the Newcastle District Association for the Lady Gowrie Appeal for Red Cross Funds, to be held at Hamilton Park courts…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Thrilling Western Film "Range War" at Herbert's
The continued popularity of the Paramount "Hopalong Cassidy" series can be attributed largely to the thrilling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chinese Were Our First Gardeners Last War Boosted Agriculture
"Going back many years into the history of vegetable growing in N.S.W. we find in the first place that our industry here was based on English methods, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Costs of War Turning Back The Records MELBOURNE
In bracing ourselves to meet the financial sacrifices demanded by the present war, it may be helpful, and not a little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chamberlain Under Fire Disagreement With War-time Policy LONDON
Recalling that Mr. Chamberlain will be 71 to-morrow, the Parliamentary correspondent of "The Times" forecasts a searching debate when the Prime Minister surveys in the House of Commons on Tuesday the situation after six months of war…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Suburban and District Labour and the War Speers Point Rally
At the Speers Point Labour rally yesterday Mr. C. Evatt, M.L.A., said that defence of Australia first was essential. "Our young men have been sent away…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Russo-japanese Clash "Preparing for Their Annual War" LONDON, March 17
There are indications that both Japan and Russia are reinforcing their positions on the Nomonhan Hill section of the Manchukuo-Mongolian frontier, in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Russians Fear Big War New Defences to Be Built London
Reports reaching Helsinki from Moscow state that the Soviet, fearing the outbreak of a general war, proposes to build as…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War Efforts of Allies Criticised Chamberlain Under Fire (Continued from page one) LONDON
While public opinion in [?] and France would welcome a more dynamic Allied war effort, the leaders alone have the facts and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On Sale To-day War Savings Certificates Mr. Menzies to Take No. 1 SYDNEY
No. 1 of each of the three denominations of the Commonwealth war savings certificates will be bought by the Prime Minister (Mr. R. G. Menzies) for his…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A.I.F. Should Not Pass Suez Sir Earle Page on War Policy Looks to New Cabinet Grafton
He felt confident that the composite Cabinet would clear away obstacles and provide Australia with a definite war policy, said Sir Earle Page at the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Few Soldiers with T.B. MELBOURNE
The Army medical authorities yesterday announced that X-ray examinations of 22,000 members of the Sixth Division of the A.I.F. showed that 109, or 5…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Returned Soldiers' Social at Adamstown
A large number of friends and relatives of returned men attended a social evening held under the auspices of the Adamstown sub-branch of the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War News Flashes
There is a great deal of speculation on the meeting of Mussolini and Hitler, but no real light on what was discussed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War and Christianity
Sir,—The Bishop of Newcastle is only one of many who are convinced the Allies had no alternative to taking up arms when peace efforts failed or were…
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