Apply for 2Hd Licence Returned Soldiers Move
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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The wars & local soldiers, 1941
3,571 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 75 of 179
Killed in Action
SAPPER C. W. BARRETT Of Hillsborough, via Charlestown, who is reported to have been killed in action…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rail Ambulances for A.i.f. Wounded
MELBOURNE, Monday.—The first of three rail ambulance cars to be provided for the transport of wounded men of the A.I.F. has been completed in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War and After It
The opinion that, although dark and perilous days lay ahead, we might indulge in "tempered optimism" about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Helping War Effort Waratah-Mayfield Committ
Waratah and Mayfield Send-oft and Welcome Home Committee will make presentations to 11 members of the serving forces at a farewell function…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Women Smokers and War Sydney
A suggestion from Melbourne that women should give up smoking "for he duration' as an economy measure…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Contributions to War and Works Loan
SYDNEY, Monday.—Principal contributions to-day to the £35,000,000 war and works loan by organisations came from the Equity Trustees, Executors and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →"Sabotaging War Effort," Says Minister Adelaide
"A few of the workers' alleged leaders are deliberately sabotaging the war effort." said the Minister for Munitions (Senator McBride) last night…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More for War in Budget Troops Overseas Extra
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) expects that provision for war expenditure in the 1941-42 Budget will exceed the 1940-41 figure of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Leave for War Zone Soon More Air Squadrons
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Informed Air Force officials revealed to-night it was almost certain that additional squadrons of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Amateur Cyclists to Assist at Rugby Union War Effort
The President of the Newcastle Amateurs (Mr. R. Clifford) and the secretary (Mr. A. K. Parker) attended a meeting of the Newcastle Rugby Union…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Scouted in Tokio Reports of Mediation in Chinese War
TOIKO, May 19. A.A.P.—Authoritative sources here scouted Moscow and Washington reports about mediation in the Sino-Japanese war. They said it was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →League Match for War Funds Proposal for June 7
Newcastle Rugby League considered last night a suggestion that matches in the Newcastle competition should be suspended on June 7, when the Country v…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Of Interest to Women W. Wallsend Dance For War Funds
The proceeds of the West Wallsend Cooperative Women's Guild annual ball, held in the School of Arts, will be shared by the two local patriotic bodies. The President of the Guild (Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Forgets Her Wounds in Carnival for War Weapons London
War-scarred London forgot its wounds to-day and made festival as part of its contribution to War Weapons Week, which was inaugurated to-day. Flags and banners hid much of the crushed and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Profiteering As Aid to War Work Professor Copland Does Not Agree
CANBERRA, Monday.—Profiteering in wartime was not justified under any circumstance, said not the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Professor Copland) to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Abyssinian War Almost at End with Amba Alagi's Fall London
High executive command for General Cunningham, conqueror of Abyssinia, is urged by Lieut.-Colonel Lowe, writing in the "Daily Mail." He has proved his merit, says the writer, because…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Secretary to Tell of Y.W.C.A. Work in War
MISS LYRA TAYLOR, General Secretary of Sydney Y.W.C.A., arrived in Newcastle yesterday on a short visit. Miss Taylor, who recently held an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →U.S. Entry to War Matter of Time Says Jap. Press Tokio
United states's participation in the war is only a matter of time, the Japanese Press declares to-day. General comment of the regimented newspapers is that Japan must abide by her obligations under the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Syria Now War Base for Nazis Early Anglo-French Clash Expected LONDON, May 19. A.A.P.
Syria has been handed over to the Germans, lock, stock and barrel, as a war base, according to General Catroux, leader of the Free French forces in the Middle East…
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