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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · The wars & local soldiers
2,993 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 66 of 150
Petitions requesting the opening of local picture shows on Sundays are being circulated among military camps and establishments in the Newcastle district. When sufficient soldiers' signatures have been obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE: The American soldier, who is being held in close confinement, will be charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: Army Inventions Directorate is giving priority in consideration to protective inventions, such as body armor for saving the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA: Questions on international law ore involved in the detention of an American soldier in Melbourne in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LAMBTON PATRIOTIC CARNIVAL.— Lambton Bomb Victims and Soldiers' Recreation Appeal Committee last night completed arrangements for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →MEXICO CITY, Monday (OSR and AAP): Mexico will undoubtedly be at war with the Axis by the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sir,—A recent cartoon in the "Newcastle Morning Herald" made it appear that there was much war work to be done and no women to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Democratic rights had now necessarily to be held in abeyance until after the war; in the interests of national…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Japan's southward drive had been slowed down and checked, the Minister for the Army (Mr. Forde) said to-sight. According to the outcome of events between now and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—Sergeant Alfred Charles Stokes, 50, and Corporal Harold Robert Haslam, 49. were charged at the Quarter Sessions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WOLLONGONG, Monday.—John Dallas Gavan, 20, a member of a home defence unit, was shot dead on Saturday night. A bullet…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY, Monday.—A member of the United States forces, who, so far as the police can ascertain, is Lowell Burditte, was knocked down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MELBOURNE, Monday.—High United States Army authorities announced to-day that the American soldier who is being held in close…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In future only men of the 2nd A.I.F., the Navy and the R.A.A.F. who had been abroad and had returned would be admitted as members…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Consideration will be given by the general committee of the Australian comforts Fund. Newcastle division. at a meeting to-night to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON. Tuesday (AAP): Badly wounded, a Spitfire pilot bailed out from 14.000 feet over the English Channel, then had to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →LONDON, May 26.—"It is time that the Labour Party left nobody in doubt about the principles for which we are fighting." Professor…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYDNEY: "Perhaps a third of the 318,000 persons to be absorbed into the war effort this year will be women," the Director-General of Manpower (Mr. Wurth) said today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The outstanding feature of yesterday's proceedings at the Labor Party's annual conference, as it was on the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Far-reaching decisions designed to gear-up the Australian war effort to the fullest capacity were made by the War Cabinet to-day. Acting on a report by a Cabinet…
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