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March 5, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Ropner's Navy Ship Beats U-boat" |
(SS Stonepool evaded destruction this time, but she was sunk Sept. 11, 1941 by U-207.) |
March 5, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "They Don't Like Nazi Rule - 8,000 Lithuanians Leave Memel" |
Also note the report in column 3: "Polish Labourers - Sent in Thousands to Germany" |
March 5, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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March 5, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 3: "U-Boat Sunk In German Waters" |
(In fact no U-boats had been sunk since Feb. 25.) |
March 5, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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March 5, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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March 5, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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March 5, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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March 5, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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March 5, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the report at bottom center: "Catholic Services in Part of Poland to be Sharply Curtailed by Nazi Orders" |
March 5, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Postpones Action on Pay Issue for Week" |
(This report is related to a reports on Mar. 1, 1940, "Census Quiz Makes Women Indignant" and "Census Quiz Protest Grows") |
[See the Biddeford Daily Journal for Mar. 1, 1940.] |
March 5, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Slayings Laid to Germany" |
(More German atrocities in Poland.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "F.D.R. Declares Census Attack Political" |
Also note the report in column 5: "Man Who Refused to Answer Census Quiz Sought" |
Also note the report in column 7: "Japanese Snowslide Hits Train; 16 Dead" |
March 5, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 8: "Japanese Move on South China" |
March 5, 1940: Installment #2 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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March 5, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Flieger schlugen sich durch die Maginotlinie. |
(Airmen cut through the Maginot Line.) |
March 5, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. London macht Konzessionen. |
(London makes concessions.) |
2. Der faschistische Hieb hat gesessen. |
(The Fascist blow has been dealt.) |
Note the report in the right hand column: "Ein Athenia Prozest droht Churchill" |
(An Athenia trial threatens Churchill) |
[More about Athenia here.] |
Page published March 5, 2021 |