Helping the War Effort Broadmeadow Station Canteen
The treasurer of the Hamiltion Send-off and Welcome Home Committee (Mr T Estall) reported last night that the income from the Broadmeadow canteen…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1943
2,543 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 69 of 128
Create No New Camps War Prisoners For Farms
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—It was not proposed to establish new prisoner of-war camps in country areas, said the Acting Director of Manpower…
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NEW YORK, July 6.—China will enter her seventh year of war tomorrow. The Chinese War Minister has put Japanese casualties in China…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Soldier Welcomed U.S. Troops on Woodlark New Allied Post in Solomons Barren, Wet and Home of Insects
WOODLAND ISLAND—or Murua, to give it the native name-new forward Allied post in the Solomons Sea,…
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MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Suitable land for a soldier settlement project is already being inspected by the Minister for Repatriation (Mr…
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SYDNEY. Tuesday.—For one hour each week in all Australian military camps an officer is to be made available for informed consultation by all…
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LONDON, Wednesday.—When six cannon shells badly damaged a Mitchell bomber over Sicily, Flight-Lieutenant Noel…
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Pupils at Waratah Boys' Public School have made an outstanding collection for Red Cross prisoner-of-war funds. In three weeks by…
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LONDON, July 7.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer (Sir Kingsley Wood), replying to the debate on the third reading of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Casualties in U.S. Mines Exceed War Losses
WASHINGTON, July 7.—Casualties in American coalmines last year were 1480 killed and 70,500 injured, of 530,000 men employed in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A.c.f. Bureau for Soldiers' Problems
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Family Welfare Bureau of the Australian Comforts Fund, New South Wales Division, has been designated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pensioners Are Wanted to Staff Soldiers' Hostel
Pensioners are being sought by the secretary of Newcastle branch of the Australian Comforts Fund (Mr. Trebor Edmunds) to help…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soldiers' Votes May Delay S.a. Election
CAFE TOWN Wednesdny—collection of soldiers' votes from the Middle East and further afield may delay the results of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →War Council Meets
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Full appreciation of the war situation from the global aspect, and particularly as it affects Australia, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Nameless War" in Pacific
NEW YORK, July 8.—The correspondent of the New York "Herald-Tribune" (Joseph Driscoll) complains that officials at Naval Headquarters…
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ADAMSTOWN PRISONERS OF WAR AUXILIARY will hold its first annual meeting in the Adamstown Soldiers Memorial Hall next Wednesday at 3.30…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Follies' £1200 War Effort
On 11 occasions in its nine months in Newcastle, the gross takings of Barton's Follies have been handed over to patriotic organisations. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Every Japanese Ship Sighted in Gulf Was Sunk or Damaged One of Most Decisive Sea Defeats of War
Every Japanese ship sighted in the Kula Gulf was destroyed or damaged in the three-phase battle which lasted for two hours before dawn, the United Press learns from a well-informed source at South Pacific Headquarters…
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KURRI RED CROSS.—Collections for the Prisoner of War Street Appeal scheme for the fortnight were: Mrs. H. Davey (Lang Street) £7 12s 4d, Mrs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →China's Seventh War Year
Chinese journalist, who served with the Chinese Expeditionary Force in the Burma War in 1941, and came to Australia a few…
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