New City Hostel for Soldiers
The architects for the Church of England authorities (Messrs. Oldham and Lees) are preparing plans and specifications for another hostel for…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1942
2,993 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 21 of 150
Soldier's Body Found on Railway Line
SYDNEY.âThe body of Private Raymond Keith Webb, 20, was found at 4 50 a.m. to-day between the rails at the southern end of…
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LONDON, Feb. 15.—Quoting a report from Geneva, Moscow Radio states that German officers who have fled from Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →After-war Plans Discussed
LONDON, Jan. 13 (Air Mail).—The two days' conference arranged by the National Peace Council on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Americans Register for War Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Nine million men between the ages of 20 and 44 began registering to-day in America's third draft registration,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Churchill Faces Storm After War's Reverses
LONDON, Sunday (Our Special Representative): The storm which is breaking around Mr. Churchill's head has shown no signs of abating during the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Release Wheat Men for War Work
CANBERRA, Sunday.—It is anticipated that thousands of men will be released for the war effort as a result of a meeting of the Wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Display at New War Loan Opening
SYDNEY.—An appeal to common sense is to be the keynote of the Liberty War Loan being opened by the Prime Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In Court To-day (Before Mr. G.J. Johnstone, P.m.) West Maitland Soldier Remanded
Cecil Woods, 41, soldier, was charged with having had in his possession four white leghorn cockerels, which may reasonably be suspected of having been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Keep Hitting Him Until He Squeals The way to defeat the enemy, says J. C. Harsch, veteran American War Correspondent, is to—
Long after the first bombs cascaded upon the heart of London, the British Government, with fastidious distaste, still hesitated to take retaliatory action against Berlin. "We are not butchers of women and children," Ministers told reporters. Then…
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Waratah and Mayfield Send-off Committee's popular lady competition will close on February 28. The committee decided last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Compulsory War Insurance Residences, Buildings
War damage insurance for residences and buildings is to be compulsory and the premiums are to be collected by the Government through…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Blame War For Form Reversals
MIAMI. Monday (A.A.P.): Showing no sign of the speed that won him the 1941 juvenile championship. Alsab finished…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Fury Opens in Libyan War
LONDON, Monday (Australian Associated Press) The gap between the main British and Axis forces in Libya has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →What People Think Implements Of War
The need for aluminium grows more pressing, but many housewives still withhold their saucepan sets. Why? Not through indifference or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Direction Shake Up Urged in Britain
LONDON, Feb. 16.—In comments on the broadcast by the Prime Minister (Mr. Churchill), the British Press to-day calls for more efficient direction of the war. It urges the retention of Mr. Churchill as leader, but calls for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Increase Power, Mineral Output Vast U.S. War Plan
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—The Secretary for the interior (Mr. Iekes) proposed to Congress a vast expansion programme, designed to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War-racked Minds Are Saved: Cured by Hypnotism and Drugs
Drugs and hypnotism are being used to restore the memories of British soldiers and sailors whose illness is the aftermath of intense sufferings, such as the ordeal of Dunkirk or the agonies of being cast adrft by a U-boat on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Casualty Ribbon
SYDNEY.— An increasing number of soldiers are to be seen wearing a narrow red ribbon on their shoulder straps. This is the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For Total War
No one will at this hour dissent from the Prime Minister's dictum that every Australian and every material thing in the…
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