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614 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 31
By a strange irony of liming, the strike tying up the great Port of London — which in a normal year handles half of Britain's exports — climaxed a week in which the British Treasury gave further striking evidence of Britain's business…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).—Mrs. Mavis Wheeler will not appeal against her conviction and sentence of six months for unlawfully wounding Lord Vivian and for unlawful possession of a firearm…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →SYDNEY: A great hunt is on in three States today for a gunman who wounded two policemen last night in a breakneck chase through the eastern suburbs of Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A chemical war will be launched in a fortnight on hordes of crickets which are starting to breed at Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →MELBOURNE. — Every Australian Army unit will be trained in jungle warfare—on the lines of…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →MOSCOW (Reuter): Communists in Russia are continuing their war on religion, though freedom of worship is permitted. The newspaper "Teach-…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. A.A.P. — The United States is believed to have warned the Chinese Nationalists to refrain from any major military action that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WASHINGTON, Wed. (O.S.R.).— In America today, with the exception of the Deep South, factions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →MOSCOW, Thurs. (AAP)—Lord Coleraine said here yesterday that apart from war damage, Russia had enough reconstruction to keep her busy for 100 years…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →MANUS ISLAND, Thursday.—Nine years after the war, Manus Island, the once-great American fighting base, is still a "bonanza" for war junk…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rev. Alan Walker said at a Mission to the Nation Rally at the Central Hall, Newcastle, last night that the battle of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Army cadet training prepared young men for useful service in peace as well as in war, Mr. I. S. McKenzie said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SYDNEY, Friday.—A sergeant with Korean service was reduced to the ranks by a military court martial to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →MELBOURNE: lectors at Alfred Hosuital have removed more than 40 shotgun pellets from a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →NAIROBI (Kenya), Mon. (A.A.P.). — Three thousand Wakamba tribesmen roared approval here…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SALT LAKE CITY (U.S.), Mon. (A.A.P.): Douglas Stringfellow, the U.S. Congressman who gave himself a false war record, has resigned his candidacy for re-election in November. He told party leaders it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →PORT SAID (O.S.R.).—Danger of another war had receded, Field - Marshal Lord Montgomery declared. He was speaking to his old regiment, the Royal Warwickshires, at Fayid. He said the danger had…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →CANBERRA, Tuesday. — Two States—N.S.W. and Victoria— have accepted a Commonwealth proposal aimed at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →VIENNA, Wed. (AAP).—A Russian soldier was arrested yesterday in the grounds of the United…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mrs. F. de Witt Batty (centre), wife of the Bishop of Newcastle, with her sister-in-law, Miss Rose Batty (left) and Mrs. W. A. Hardie, wife of the Dean of Newcastle, at the welcome home to Mrs. Batty in the Shortland Room yesterday afternoon…
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