Motor-cycle Hits Horse Two Soldiers Critical SYDNEY
Corporal Richard Weekes and Private A. E. Sheather, of the Army Service Carps of the Second A.I.F., were admitted to the Prince of Wales Military…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1940
4,844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 64 of 243
Blow to Hitler's Hopes How Press Sees Mr. Chamberlain's War Review Nazi Leaders Confer in Berlin Seizure of Three Ships in Adriatic by British Reported (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, April 3
Newspapers to-day emphasise that Mr. Chamberlain's speech in the House of Commons yesterday was a fatal blow to any illusions Herr Hitler had of the possibilities of concluding peace without being defeated, and that it may mark a turning-point…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →War News Flashes
A twenty-ton British Sunderland flying-boat fought a spectacular battle with six of the latest German bombers off the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The War 25 Years Ago
IT is reported that the Germans are hastily building many additional bridges on the Rhine at close intervals. A Turkish 3432 ton cruiser has been…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mr. Churchill And a Livelier War
OUT of a profound dissatisfaction in Britain with the progress of the war and the lack of energy with which the Government appeared to prosecute it have come a Cabinet reorganisation…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Want War Imports More Quickly Canberra
Efforts to remove the administrative difficulty in obtaining urgent imports for the Supply Department are to be made by the Federal Cabinet when it…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →War Guilt of Nazis Revealed Disclosures in Diary London
Fresh evidence that the German Government was already determined on war while Poland and the Allies were striving for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Nazi Grip on Poland Using Resources for War PARIS, April 4
The Polish Minister for Propaganda (M. Stronski) has released a circular which Field-Marshal Goering has issued ordering the ruthless employment of all…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Not "Phoney" War Will Be No "Phoney" Peace PARIS, April 4
The Premier (M. Reynaud) said in a broadcast that the French were determined not to follow the war, which was in no way "phoney," by a "phoney"…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Latest War News American Reaction to Propaganda Canadian Speech Resented New York
"A campaign of concentrated propaganda to involve the United States in war has begun in Canada."…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Keep War Away From Japan British Navy Warned Do Nothing Illegal, Is Reply (Australian Associated Press.) TOKIO, April 4
A Japanese Admiralty spokesman warned the British Navy not to Institute a blockade at Vladivostok. "In the event of illegalities," he…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →More Cigarettes for Soldiers
The Newcastle branch of the Victoria League feels encouraged by the response made to the appeal for its fund for 100,000 cigarettes for the Second A.I.F…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier Shot in Sydney Disturbance Outside House SYDNEY, Friday morning
Private Michael O'Shea, attached to the Army Service Corps at Ingleburn, was shot between the eyes after a disturbance outside a house in East Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Fortnights Enlistments in 2nd A.I.F. SYDNEY
In the past fortnight 1419 applications to Join the A.I.F. have been received throughout the State. Two hundred have completed the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr. Churchill to Direct War Policy Significance of British Cabinet Reshuffle Critics Demand More Drastic Reorganisation (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, April 4
The most significant development emerging from the Cabinet changes announced yesterday is that Mr. Winston Churchill becomes, in effect, Britain's supreme Defence Minister. The retirement of Lord Chatfield enabled the Prime Minister…
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"The British Army is ready for anything and we would welcome a go at the enemy." said General Sir Edmund Ironside, Chief of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →RAILWAY & Tramway Diggers Separate Unit For Anzac Day March
The Railway and Tramway Returned Soldiers' Association, No. 2 branch, will depart from its usual custom this year and form up as a separate unit…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Post-war Problem
ALREADY PLANS ARE BEING MADE for a post-war Europe. No doubt the German Government has its plan, consisting, as we have seen in Bohemia and Moravia and Poland, of domination and loot, lebensraum—for Germany—and subservience…
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"PRUSSIAN militarism cannot be crushed on the battlefields. The smashing blow must come from the Prussian people," said Mr. Ramsay…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →New Location of War Comforts Depot
A special meeting of the ladies' committee of the Newcastle and District Patriotic and Way Fund was held yesterday. Mrs. W. J. Carter presided…
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