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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
3,571 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 179
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Because there was not a plant suitable to do part of the work being carried out at the Waratah works of the Commonwealth Steel Co…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At a party organised by Whitebridge Soldiers' Welfare Committee, Privates S. Cooper and B. Shelley were each presented with a wallet of notes, autograph books, and socks…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →WITH the inauguration of a special Army Department for the education and re-education of soldiers, the Minister for the Army, Mr. Spender, has taken the first step towards the better social order and strengthened economic conditions which, it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Questioned before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives whether a gift of American warships would lead America into the war, the former United States Ambassador in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Carrington Send-off and Welcome Home Committee will support the Central Patriotic and War Fund Committte…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Jan. 22. A.A.P.—Informed sources in Berlin state that 7500 Belgian soldiers and 5995 civilians were killed in the Western offensive. The figures are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—To-day's meeting of the War Cabinet had cleared up a large amount of routine business, the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) told…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hundreds of German airmen, captured in Britain, were landed in Canada to-day from a British ship. In groups of 50 they were thoroughly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The War Office announces that the International Red Cross, with Germany's approval, is arranging to repatriate severely wounded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Japanese Cabinet is drafting a bill designed to give it powers, such as control of expenditure without the Diet's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, Jan. 22. A.A.P.—Replying to the debate on manpower, Mr. Churchill said, in the House of Commons: "I welcome the debates in Parliament. It would…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Premier Mr. Mair) said to-day, referring to a report of the seamen's strike, and to the holding up of a ship, that the episode…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Officers in charge of recruiting in Newcastle for the A.I.F. are pleased with the number of young men of the right type volunteering for service…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY. Wednesday.—Lieutenant-Colonel G. F. Murphy was to-day elected State President of the Returned Soldiers' League after a draw from a hat. He…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Three soldiers appeared at the West Maitland Police Court, before Mr. E. M. Debenham, J.P., this morning on charges of having, on January 23,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE women's auxiliary of the Adamstown Returned Soldiers League held its annual meeting and election of officers last night…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SEVERAL members of the A.I.F. received presentations at the A.L.P. Committee Rooms. Hunter Street West, on Monday night, when a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHANGHAI, Jan. 23. A.A.P.—Two men, Mr. Keawick and a Japanese, Mr. Okamato, were wounded when shooting occurred at a meeting here to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →"The Road to Victory" is a two-weeler, and traces the sire for the Dictator powers; attempts for peace by Britain which failed: and, then, finally—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—Mr. F. J. Edwards, President of Lambton Soldiers' Committee, says the police have enough to do if they do their job, without working for patriotic…
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