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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
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A special meeting of the Grater Newcastle Council will be held next Wednesday night to discuss the Council's part in the war emergency organisation and the maintenance of a local government programme to the utmost extent permitted by war conditions. said the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY.—Classical music. dramatic plays. educational talks on art and culture and highbrow literature will, the Central Cultural Council hopes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MUSWELLBROOK. — Mr. Harry Heath, a veteran of the 1914-18 war, this week left to take up R.A.A.F. duties in Sydney. He is the father…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: Most Japanese concede they haven't a chance of winning the war, says Dr. Rudlf Singer, Czechoslovakian chemical…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Details of the council's part in the war emergency organisation will be placed before aldermen at a special meeting of Greater Newcastle Council on Wednesday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Problems of the highest importance are believed to have been discussed at a conference of the Allied War Council, summoned by President Roosevelt in Washington last night…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The following donations are acknowledged by the Newcastle and District Red Cross Convalescent Home at Dudley:— Sandgate Red Cross branch, 1 linen…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WASHINGTON, Friday (A.A.P.).— In December the United States Treasury spent 2,500,000,000 dollars. This was more than the expenditure…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →MELBOURNE, Friday.—The promotion of eight brigadiers to the rank of major-general and 10 other important Army appointments were announced by the Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) to-night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Major John F. Howard, who has been awarded the O.B.E. (military division) is a member of a well-known Newcastle family. Before the outbreak of war he…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Licut. H. G. (Toby) Davies, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. V. Davies, of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, November 30 (Air Mail)— America's soldiers are now getting the words; all they have to do now is supply the music…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →LONDON, November 30. (Air Mail).—A thousand million pounds, representing more than £20 a head for the total population, has been raised by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—A former well-known cracksman, now serving a prison sentence in Western Australia, is making a contribution to the war effort…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SYDNEY, Sunday.—Plans for the camouflaging of key centres and plants throughout Australia will be before the War Council in Canberra to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The United Buffalo Lodges of Newcastle decided yesterday to close on January 17. the popular woman competition being run in conjunction with the appeal for the Red…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AUCKLAND (N.Z.). Sunday.—With more than 150,000 civilians, including 30,000 women, enrolled for home defence or the emergency services, New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Sunday. (A.A.P.).—"We are determined not to lose this war of the peace that will follow it," declared Mr. Eden (British Foreign Secretary), telling of his journey to Russia and his conversations with M. Stalin in Moscow…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Sunday.—Announcing the appointment of General Sir Archibald Wavell as Supreme Commander of Allied, sea, land, and air forces in the south-west Pacific, the Prime…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, December 7 (By Air Mail from O. H. Brandon): Five times a day the Czech radio announcer in London calls "Vola Londyn!"—"London Calling!" It has become a war cry for the…
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