War News Flashes
"If Russia declares war on any other country the Allies Allies will declare war on Russia," the French Ambassador to the U.S.A. said…
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 57 of 243
The War 25 Years Ago
IT IS OFFICIALLY stated that British airmen damaged two submarines at Hoboken, three miles south of Antwerp, and set fire to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →War Fund Office Moved for Third Time
The office of the Newcastle District Patriotic and War Fund at the City Hall was moved to-day to new quarters on the Christie Lane side of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"War Imperialistic" British Shop Workers Carry Motion LONDON, March 25
The National Union of Shop Assistants, Warehousemen, and Clerks, at their annual meeting in Birmingham, carried, by 86 votes to 57, a resolution moved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Believes War May Spread to Africa Cape Town, March 1
A belief that "it was by no means certain that the African continent would not become the theatre of possibly the most severe fighting that the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Russia Is Warned by the Allies Next Invasion Will Mean War With Them LONDON
"If Russia attacks any other country the Allies will dc dare war on Russia," the French Ambassador to the U.S.A. (Count de Saint Quentin) said at Boston (U.S.A.) to-day "We are ready and will move immediately," he declared,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deliver World From War Extensive Prayers at Easter Pope Pleads to All Peoples (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, March 25
In holy sanctuaries throughout the world yesterday there were earnest prayers that mankind would soon be delivered from war…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Women Want to Train Take Places of Soldiers SYDNEY
The Women's Auxiliary of the National Defence League is formulating a scheme to train women to fill the places in primary and secondary industries of men…
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Bold British moves have disrupted Germany's Scandinavian sea trade. Scandinavian harbors are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →War-time Economy
Sir,—Close behind the biggest economic depression in history, war has come to demonstrate the inability of our financial system to cope with our economic…
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The Organiser of the Newcastle and District Patriotic and War Fund (Mr. C. J. A. Beaumont) has moved into another office in the City Hall…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Old Rags for War Fund
Sir,—"J.K.," of Hamilton, says regarding the collection of old rages as a means of raising funds for the war fund, why descend so low as to even suggest such…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War 25 Years Ago
MARGUERITE SCHMITT, a native of Thiancourt, 19 miles south-west of Metz, was shot as a spy in the presence of French troops…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Can't Be Spared for War Sydney
Up to the end of February, 299 applicants in N.S.W. for enlistment in the Army, Navy and Air Force had been rejected because…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Zealand Men Face War Grimly Wellington, March 6
THE type of man and the kind of army New Zealand is sending overseas in this war are not just reproductions of the First Expeditionary Force. They have something fresh to add to the Anzac tradition. The differences, I think, are partly in the men, partly in the Army. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.S. War Planes for Britain London, March 26
At least 500 of the latest type of war planes now being made in the United States for the Army are to be released for Britain, according to a message from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Too Casual Says P.M. Australians and the War Sydney
Too many Australians were too casual about the war, and thought it could be won without casualties, the Prime Minister (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →By Sea, Air, and Land War Odds Surveyed LONDON, March 13 (Air Mail)
The second stage of the Great War that began in August, 1914, and was ostensibly but not realistically interrupted for 25 years in November, 1918, has been in progress for six months. A comparison between the situation now, and at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War in All Fields Is French Aim Vigorous Radio Speech By New Premier PARIS
"France's war objective remains the same— the defeat of the enemy," declared M. Reynaud, broadcasting on the British and French network, "If Hitler could have seen the emergence of a French…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain's Bank Holiday Undertone of War "Hush-hush" Fair at Hampstead Heath (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, March 26
Naval ratings patrolling the Serpentine, Auxiliary Territorial Service girls' uniforms, interweaving with the picturesque folk dancers' costumes at country…
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