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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
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Coinciding with Japan's persistent expansion southward despatches from Berlin in Tokio newspaper declare now that the European war is likely to develop a third front towards Malaya…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Labor view is that Australia should not insist upon men and materials remaining in Australia if there was a chance that their transport…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Since General Wavel, a few days ago stood on a hill above Barentu (Eritrea) and watched the battle by telescope for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Voting will take place to-morrow on the amendments to President Roosevelt's "Lend or Lease" Bill. Final vote on the measure will be taken on Friday or Saturday. In the debate to-day, opponents of the bill objected that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"There is little doubt about the seriousness of the present international situation as it affects Australia," declared the Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) and the Federal Opposition Leader (Mr. Curtin) in a joint…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Merewether sub-branch of the Returned Soldiers' League was addressed last night by Lieutenant-Colonel J. J. Dunbar, who sought recruits for the 8th Garrison…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Premier (Mr. Mair) said to-night that the question of preference to soldiers in the present war would be discussed at a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—At a meeting of the Advisory War Council to-day, the Deputy Labour Leader (Mr. Forde) referred to his scheme for the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →CANBERRA, Thursday.—Australia's war debt at the end of December—after 15 months of war—stood at £93,239,308. A Treasury statement gazetted to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SINGAPORE. Feb. 6. A.A.P.—It is officially announced that the Malayan Government has accepted the findings and recommendations of the Delhi conference…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Approval was given by Federal Cabinet to-day to a recommendation of the War Memorial Board that the scope of the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A public meeting of the citizens of Kotara was held in the Kotara Progress Hall lost night for the purpose of forming a committee to assist the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Feb. 6. A.A.P.—King Boris and the Bulgarian Government are both attempting to evade war, but they seem to be slowly…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The proudest boy on the North Shore line in Kerry Goulaston, aged five, of Wollstonecraft, who now has a collapsible telescope, captured from an Italian sniper at Bardia. It arrived by Wednesday's air-mail…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A large gift of comforts was received at the Newcastle War Fund Comforts Depot yesterday from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Service League. It included 59…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Feb. 6. A.A.P.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood) said in the House of Commons that expenditure at present was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →SYDNEY, Thursday.—Maurice Shier George, 25, of Campsie, was sentenced to one month's imprisonment, with hard labour, at Campsie Court to-day. He had…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The possibility of postmasters delegating the responsibility for informing relatives of members of the defence forces of fatal casualties was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A soldier with a wife and seven children, who has signed on for the duration of the war for garrison duty in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Parades of returned soldiers who have volunteered In the Kurri-Abermain-Cessnock unit to enter the 21-days camp on February 24 will be…
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