World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday, March 11, 1940
Day 193

March 11, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "27's May Be Registered in June"


March 11, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 7: "The New Lawrence of Arabia"


March 11, 1940: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 7: "Japan's Plans For A New China"


March 11, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 5: "Two Permits to Buy a Football"


March 11, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 2: "New Device Counters Magnetic Mines"


March 11, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 11, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 3: "Another Nazi Vessel Intercepted By G.B. Warship, Puerto Rico"
(The cargo ship Hannover was captured by HMS Dunedin and HMCS Assiniboine and taken as a prize. It was later converted into an escort carrier by the British and renamed HMS Audacity. In a strange turn of fate, the ex-German freighter was sunk by a German submarine, U-751, on Dec. 21, 1941.)


March 11, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 11, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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March 11, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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March 11, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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Note the report in column 2: "Student Dies After Drinking Society Holds Initiation; Smothers In Sleep"
Also note the report in column 5: "Crazed Woman Slays Kiddies, Tries Suicide"
 
(Either one of these reports could have been published today, and in fact, a report of a college student dying from an alcohol related hazing incident was published Mar. 8, 2021. This just tends to prove that no matter how evolved we think we are as a society, people never change.)
[The Synchronicity Conundrum.]


March 11, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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Note the report in column 1: "British People Must Go On Meat Rations"


March 11, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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March 11, 1940: Installment #7 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 11, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Der Krieg muß zum glorreichsten Sieg werden.
(The war must become a glorious victory.)
2. Der Führer und Oberste Befehlshaber gedenkt im Berliner Zeughaus der Gefallenen.
(The Führer and his top commander commemorate the fallen at the Zeughaus in Berlin.)


March 11, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Hore-Belisha für sofortige Abrechnung mit Rußland.
(Hore-Belisha for immediate settlement with Russia.)



   
Page published March 11, 2021