World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday, January 22, 1940
Day 144

January 22, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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January 22, 1940: Front page of the North-Eastern Gazette, Middlesbrough, England.
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Note the photo of HMS Repulse at top center.
[More about HMS Repulse here.]


January 22, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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Note the report in column 7: "116 Executed for Skoda Sabotage"


January 22, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 4: "H.M.S. Grenville Sunk: 80 Lives Lost"
[More about HMS Grenville here.]


January 22, 1940: Front page of the Evening Telegraphist and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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January 22, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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January 22, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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January 22, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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January 22, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 7: "Strip Tease For Hitler? Tisn't So, Says Miriam And Sues For $1,000,000"


January 22, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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January 22, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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January 22, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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January 22, 1940: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana.
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January 22, 1940: Installment #7 of "Four Years Against HItler" from the Press and Journal.
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January 22, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Die Herrschaft eines sibirischen Winters.
(The rule of a Siberian winter.)


January 22, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Stärkste Beachtung der deutschen Veröffentlichungen zum Gelbbuch.
(Most attention to the German publications on the yellow book.)
2. Flottillenführer Grenville vernichtet.
(Flotilla leader Grenville destroyed.)



   
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