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3,571 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 74 of 179
Swift action has been taken by the United States against the Vichy Government, which has reached an agreement with Germany and allowed German planes to use Syrian aerodromes en route for Irak. The U.S. Treasury to-day ordered the Coastguard to put armed guards aboard…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →CANBERRA, Friday. — Commenting to-day on the Work being performed by the Repatriation Commission in placing in employment returned soldiers, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SERGEANT R. T. S. NEARY, who has been reported wounded in action. He served for eight years in the East Yorkshire Regiment in Egypt,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) announced to night that the War Cabinet would sit in Melbourne on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Latest investor in Newcastle in the Commonwealth £135,000,000 War and Works Loan is the firm of W. Winn and Co. Ply. Ltd., which has made…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →(Australian Associated Press) The degree to which woman-power is swinging into war effort is illustrated by the decision to train selected members of the Women's Auxiliary…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Confidence that the committee would reach its objective of £450,000 by the end of June was expressed by Mr. D. G. McDougall of the Newcastle War…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →SYDNEY, Friday.—By the end of June, war expenditure in Australia would probably exceed £13,000,000 a month, the Acting Prime Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SYDNEY, Friday.—The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) announced that £1,000,000 was subscribed to the £35,000,000 war loan to-day. Up to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Everything possible being done through the Red A.I.F. prisoners of war in Greece do not want for food." said the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mrs. M. Scudd, of Muswellbrook, has been advised by the military authorities that her son, Corporal C. Scudd, died of wounds on May 2…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Applications for the Commonwealth £35,000,000 loan at Newcastle and suburban banks total £104,000. They include. £2000 from W. Winn & Co. Pty. Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flowers and flags decorated the Kotara Hall on Saturday night. when a presentation dance and card party arranged by the Kotara Patriotic…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →BRISBANE, Sunday.—Sir Alexander Roger, who is chairman of the British Supply Mission to the Eastern Group Conference at New Delhi, is amazed at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The staff of W. Winn and Co. Pty. Ltd. has contributed £1820 to the Commonwealth £35,000,000 war and works loan. In Newcastle and suburbs…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Minister in Charge of External Territories (Mr. Collins) said this afternoon that he expected that war expenditure in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A decision is expected at any moment by the British War Cabinet as to whether or not the Royal Air Force shall bomb the immense war factories around Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train-loads of French war material from Syria have been sent to Iraq, according to Turkish reports. R.A.F. planes machine-gunned some of the trains. French fighters are reported to have chased three British bombers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—The Director-General of Recruiting (Major-General H. W. Lloyd) said yesterday that between April 28 and May 14, 15,922 men of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A proposal that the Newcastle District Council of Sub-branches of the Returned Soldiers' League should apply to the Federal Government for the licence of…
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