What People Think War Correctives
It is strange to sec how the disarmament craze is again and again introduced as a war corrective. It is also pathetic to see such an utterly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1941
3,571 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 179
Japanese Foresee More War London
"It must be realised that the road toward the final goal is hard, and that international relations will be further…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Post-war Use of Factories Lithgow
The conversion of munitions factories to the manufacture of peace-time products after the war was advocated yesterday by Mr. R. S. Yates…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Allowance Not Paid South Coast Engineers Dissatisfied
SYDNEY. Tuesday.—Engineers employed by a number of South Coast firms will hold a stop-work meeting at Wollongong on January 15 unless they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Win the War and Peace" National Resolution for New Year
MELBOURUNE, Tuesday.—"On this night I want every Australian to make a resolution which shall be not only his but for everybody—a national resolution,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At Work All Day—To War All Night LONDON, November 15
NIGHT is coming. The hall porter removes his long, bottle-green coat with the brass buttons, puts away his tall collar and black bow tie, and ceases to be a resplendent functionary. He emerges in close-fitting blue overalls, tin hat jammed down, gas-mask slung—no longer one of the hierarchy of domestic…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hitler Offers 100/1 Bombing Raids "War Will Be Continued To The End" LONDON
"The war will be continued to the end," said Hitler in his New Year Order of the Day to the German armed forces. "That is to say, until the criminals responsible for it have been removed."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Killed at Katoomba Katoomba
About 2.30 a.m. to-day a tourist walking along the platform of the railway station at Katoomba saw the body of a soldier who had been run over by…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nazi War Plane Losses
LONDON, Jan. 1. A.A.P.—The Air Ministry reported that more than 3500 German war planes were destroyed over Britain or around her shores in 1040. Of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Empire's Part in the War
In any review of the Empire's war effort covering the year which has just closed pride of place must be given to Britain, but there has been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hitler on War Proclamation to Party
LONDON, January 1. A.A.P.—Herr Hitler to-day issued a lengthy proclamation to the Nazi Party. He began in the usual way with grievances and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Year of War Work for Women
What faces women in 1941? The year that has passed has been one filled with new and startling situations to many women. Thousands had experienced the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letters to Editor Neath's War Record
Sir,—A paragraph in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" on Friday named three men from Neath who did not return from the last war. Mr. Edmunds, of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Underground War Tank New York, November 25
A "mole" war tank which. it is claimed, can bore its was under the earth to get behind the enemy lines or quickly bore a hole in which to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Eire Blinkers Hide War Realities" London
"The plain truth is that nobody in Dublin seems to know or care a threepenny-bit about the war," says an "Evening Standard" correspondent wiring from the Ulster border…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smuts Sees America in War for Freedom If Final Need Arises London
The conviction that in the last resource the United States would not stand out of the war was expressed by the South African Prime Minister (General Smuts) in a New Year broadcast. The position of Britain was becoming stronger, however, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →R.A.F. Dives Through Cloud Veil Rain Destruction On Vital War Plants LONDON
Through openings in the winter cloud bank over Germany and the Low Countries, British bombers continue to rain destruction on the enemy's vital war plants…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldier Run Down by Mail Train
KATOOMBA. Wednesday.—A tourist walking along the platform of the railway station at Katcomba found the body of a soldier, who had been run over by a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Danger of Invasion Still Exists Britons Warned Not to Relax Vigilance Lessons of 1940 Air War London, Jan. 1. A.A.P.
"The danger of an invasion of Britain still exists, and is likely to exist till the Spring," said a high-placed official to-day, when reviewing the air war of 1940. "The moment we relax our vigilance the Germans are likely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →First Victorian Wounded in Action
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—The first Victorian casualty as a result of fighting overseas, announced to-day by the Army Department was Trooper W. J. Tope,…
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