World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, March 5, 1940
Day 187

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.]



   
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