"Excessive" Taxi Fares Soldiers at Rutherford
Soldiers in camp at Rutherford were being exploited by taxi-cab proprietors in the Maitland district by, being forced to pay 4/ to 5/…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
The wars & local soldiers, 1942
2,993 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 18 of 150
Soldiers Carry Blood Powder
LONDON, Jan. 5 (Air Mail).—Every United States soldier eventually may carry a vial of his own blood serum tucked away in his…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tax Exemptions for Soldiers
Men who had enlisted for active service should be exempted from paying tax on income earned during the year ended June 30…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Role of Anzac Naval Force
LONDON, Feb. 9.—"The Times" refers to the new Anzac naval force in the south-west Pacific under Vice-Admiral Leary, of the United States…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wounded Man's Condition Remains Grave
SYDNEY: Doctors are still striving to save the life of Private Samuel Plumb. 25, A.I.P., who is in St. Vincent's Hospital with a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Reunion Of War Veterans
The annual reunion of the Naval. Military and Veterans Association was held in the Anzac Hall last night…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Helping the War Effort Adamstown Presentation
A social dance and social arranged by held in the School of Arts last night when presentations were made to five…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →29,000 Wanted for War Plants
MELBOURNE, Monday.—Munition factories coming into production in Australia in the next six months will require 29,000 more men and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Suburban and District Wallsend Police War Fund
A meeting in the Wallsend Courthouse last night revived the Wallsend Police and Citizens' Committee for help of the Police Department and Police…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Newcastle May Win a War Loan Pennant
Judged on previous experience, Newcastle has a good chance of winning a pennant in the new Commonwealth war loan of £35,000,000, which opens next Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prisoners of War Rations Altered in Britain
LONDON, Monday. (Our Special Representative).—Enemy prisoners of war in Britain are better fed than British civilians and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pacific War Council in London Mr. Curtin's Announcement
CANBERRA, Monday.—Announcing the establishment of the Pacific War Council in London, the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) said to-night that for the present, Sir Earle Page, who is now Australia's representative on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Horrors of Russian Winter War Germans Die In Thousands
News leaking to the outside world of the dreadful sufferings of the German troops in sub-zero temperatures on the Russian front shows that they were dying of frozen limbs and its consequent gangrene by thousands every week. The information does not come from Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →While Democracies Looked On, Japan Built 5,629,845 Tons of Shipping. a Merchant Navy Designed for War
(By J. H. Adams).—Japan has a large and efficient merchant navy, working closely as an auxiliary of the Japanese Navy, but. large as it is, it will be strained to the utmost to keep pace with the steadily growing power of the Allies in the Pacific…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers Fire on Plane in U.S.
BELLEVILLE (Illinois), Feb. 9.—A passenger in a commercial sight-seeing plane was critically wounded by bullets when army soldiers who…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rebuilding Returned Soldiers
SYDNEY, Monday.—The first occupational therapy course for masseuses began in Sydney to-day at the headquarters of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Care of Lonely Soldiers Mayor's Plea to Comforts Fund
"There is a responsibility on this committee to do something to make social contacts for members of the forces stationed in this district," said…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soldier Faces Charges At Court-martial
SYDNEY, Monday.—Stated by his counsel to be under close arrest, Gunner Norman McLeod, 4th Anti-Tank Regiment,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Lonely Soldiers on Leave
Lonely soldiers stationed in this district have the sympathy of the Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Ald. W. E…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Sabatalk" Menaces Soldiers
LONDON, Mon. (O.S.R.): The first British paratroop raid on southern Italy on Feb. 10, 1941, was partly…
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