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March 18, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Entombed Miners - Hope Abandoned for 71 Men" |
(Report of the Ohio mine disaster of Mar. 16.) |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Nazis Bang The Drum About Scapa" |
(A flight of German bombers attacked Scapa Flow on Mar. 16th. German propaganda claimed that HM battleships Hood, Renown and Repulse were damaged, even destroyed. In fact only the cruiser, HMS Norfolk, had received a direct hit, which killed 4 officers. HMS Iron Duke, a depot ship which was converted from a battleship, was slightly damaged by near misses. There was damage to shore installations, but it was not severe.) |
Also note the report in column 4: "Crew Feared Lost" |
(Sadly the Tiberton had been sunk with all hands on Feb. 19 by U-23.) |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota. |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Just Goes To Show Anything Can Happen" |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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March 18, 1940: Installment #13 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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I think this passage from the story is particularly relevant to today. "And so it went from bad to worse and the Athenian Democracy perished as practically every experiment in Democracy has come to a direful end - it exhausted its forces upon futile wranglings and bickerings between incompetent ward bosses and petty politicians and in the end it was destroyed by its own inner violence - and ceased to exist for lack of honest and capable leadership." |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Schwerster Schlag gegen englische Flotte. |
(Heaviest blow against the British fleet.) |
2. Bomben auf Scapa Flow Vernichtende Treffer auf Schlachtschiffe und Kreuzer. |
(Bombing raid on Scapa Flow - Devastating hits on battleships and cruiser.) |
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March 18, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Führer und Duce auf dem Brenner. |
(Hitler and Mussolini on the Brenner.) |
[English versions of this report are seen in the papers above.] |
2. Berichte der Flieger über bisher größten Luftsieg: Volltreffer auf britische Schlachtschiffe und Flugplätze. |
(Reports from airmen about the biggest aerial victory to date: Direct hit on British battleships and airfields.) |
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Page published March 18, 2021 |