War Victims' Fund
The following additional amounts have been received for the Great Britain Civilian War Victims' Relief Fund (Newcastle District Appeal)…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1941
3,571 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 179
War Fund Comforts Depot
Members of the Army Medical Corps Comforts Fund and St. Andrew's Service League staffed the Newcastle War Fund Comforts Depot yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wallsend Plans War Fund Efforts
The Wallsend Police and Citizens' Committee of the Police War Fund, from which £185 was transferred to the Newcastle Divisional Committee during the past six months,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Helping War Effort Waratah Red Cross
Profits for 1940 of the jumble shop of the Waratah-Mayfield branch of the Red Cross Society were £184. The shop, which was opened six…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Ends Pen Friendship Sydney
Pen-friendships are among the ties broken by war and the N.S.W. Education Department now discourages…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"U.s. War Materials Go Into Reich"
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 7. A.A.P.—Responsible American business men say that Germany is obtaining United States war materials, mostly metals, by Pacific -…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All Aid at the Risk of War
President Roosevelt's note of challenge to the dictatorships and of encouragement to the democracies grows firmer and stronger. His fireside…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Life Savings As War Gift London, November 30
Mr. Charles George, aged 70, a farmer, of Chelsfield, Kent, England, came to London the other day. He went to the House of Commons, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Unify Main Railway Gauges Mr. Forde to Urge War Council
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Forde) will urge at the Advisory War Council meeting in Melbourne to-morrow the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Tour to Help War Effort Brisbane Y.A.L. Boys
Band music and a march by 40 youngsters down Hunter-street awoke Newcastle at noon yesterday .to the fact that Young Australia League members…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Step Closer to Winning War "Every Penny Spent on Technical Education"
"Every penny spent on technical education development is a step closer to winning the war because it will enable us to train men to meet the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Greeks Push on But Feel Shortage of War Materials London
Though the Greeks continue to push back the Italian lines in Albania, emphasis is being laid on the need for speeding up supplies from friendly countries. The stage has been reached at which the Greek batteries…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Won't Be Quisling in War Effort" Mr. Curtin to Critics
PERTH, Tuesday.—"Attacks against myself are due to my refusal to be a Quisling in the war effort," said the Leader of the Opposition (Mr. Curtin) to-day. "Labour…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anxious War Workers "Where Do We Start?" Asks Public Lessons In Manpower Use In England LONDON
"The ordinary citizen has been told to go to it; but he sill wants to know—'Go to what, where, and how?'" War production is being widely discussed since the appointment of the new war production executive, and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep-like Prisoners Italians Want Home and Mandolin "Don't Like War, Because I May Get Hurt" LONDON
"It is sickening to see thousands of Italians marching in captivity like a lot of sheep and displaying about the same reactions as sheep," a correspondent of the Associated Press of America writes from Bardia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Jumped to Death From Train Soldier Was Under Escort
William James Berman, 22, a private in the A.I.F., was accidentally killed when attempting to escape from lawful custody, the Coroner Mr. A. G. Chiplin) found at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the Courts (Before Mr. M. E. Soane, S.m.) Newcastle Police Court Soldiers Remanded
On the application of the Police Prosecutor (Sergeant C. E. Kennedy), William John Flanagan (24) Robert Henry Butchard (21) and Richard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Returned Soldiers' Defence Corps Training Resumes
The Returned Soldiers' League Volunteer Defence Corps will resume training this week. The first parade will be held to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soldier's Letter to Mayor "We'll Keep Coaly City's Flag Flying
"We will keep the old 'Coaly City's flag flying—make no mistake—and be glad to do it." This sentence occurs in a letter the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Boys Wounded by Gunshot
While playing on the river bank at Paterson this morning, two boys were wounded by gunshot…
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