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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
4,844 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 66 of 243
A police inspector, sergeant and constable were involved in a struggle with militiamen in High-street, West Maitland on Saturday night. Although a crowd…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Detailed arrangements for the Anzac Day parade in Newcastle on April 25, were announced to-day by the secretary of the local…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lightning blows to-day by the British Navy after it had laid three minefields in Norwegian waters cost Germany five ships,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →RUSSIA has won much ground on the Carpathians. They are pouring into Hungary. The War Office has issued posters…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Arrangements for the Mayoral Ball on June 27, proceeds of which will be devoted to the War Fund, were considered at a meeting at the City…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →IN five weeks of moving about the neutral countries I met no one who wanted Germany to win; I met many who said that, in their opinion, she had already lost…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The comforts depot of the Newcastle and District Patriotic and War Fund will be opened on Monday for work, although the official opening date has not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A balance sheet up to March 31 presented to last night's meeting of the Newcastle District Patriotic and War Fund showed that receipts to that date…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AMERICA and other foreign Powers play a prominent part in the debates of the Imperial Japanese Diet, for the Foreign Office and its policies constitute the favorite target of attack in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exports from the United States rose 33 per cent. in the first six months of the war (September, 1939, to February, 1940), compared with the corresponding…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →About 8000 engineers left their jobs to-day to attend the stop-work meeting called by the Amalgamated Engineering Union…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Stanley Rupert Jordan, one of seven distinguished British diplomats who are to advise the British Government how it may beat wage the economic war in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →In the first six months of the war the Federal Government had effectively chocked profiteering and exploitation of the public, said the Prime Minister (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wallsend Progress Association last night decided to ask the Greater Newcastle Council to approach the military authorities to make available the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A meeting was held at the Hotel Australia to-day to devise ways of assisting the Dominion Soldiers' Club in London. Lady Wakchurst proposed that a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Frank McKinnon, 21, and Ken Ferguson, 21, of West Maitland machine-gunners of the 16th Light Horse Regiment, crashed into Goonoo Goonoo Creek,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Enlistments into the militia of men not liable for universal training will be discontinued after July, the Minister for War (Mr. Street) has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A public welcome home was given at West Wallsend to Able Seaman James Curran, of H.M.A.S. Perth, who, for the last eight months, has been on active…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A great naval battle is raging off Norway over a 400 miles front from the Skagerrak to Narvik…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The catalogue of German crime grows grievously long—the forcing of Austria, the intrigue against Czechoslovakia and the eventual…
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