World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday, March 28, 1940
Day 210

March 28, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the report in column 5: "Grounded U-Boat Interned By Norway"
(The boat, U-21, was recaptured by the Germans after they invaded Norway. It was put back into commission and survived until Aug. of 1944 when it was taken out of service and used for spare parts.)


March 28, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 28, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "U-Boats In Far East"
(To the best of my knowledge there were no such arrangements.)


March 28, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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March 28, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report at top right: "Graf Spee's Crew Refused To Fight"
(I have never seen any evidence to suggest this was true.)
Also note the report in column 8: "Sunken Ship In Port"


March 28, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 28, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 28, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 3: "Scourge - Typhoid Outbreak Takes First Life"


March 28, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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March 28, 1940: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana.
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Note the report in column 6: "Terror Grips Poland Under Soviet Regime - Hundreds of Polish Landlords Executed; Others Stripped Of Their Riches"
(Just another example that proves communism, socialism and nazism are branches of the same evil, totalitarian tree.)


March 28, 1940: Front page of the Dunkirk Evening Observer, Dunkirk, New York.
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Note the report in column 7: "Widow Of Titanic Wreck Victim Is Dead In Florida"


March 28, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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March 28, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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March 28, 1940: Installment #22 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 28, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Flottenhilfe eine lächerliche Verrücktheit.
(Fleet assistance a ridiculous madness.)


March 28, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Neue akute Gefahr für Norwegen.
(Acute danger for Norway.)
2. Neutralität nicht mehr respektiert
(Neutrality no longer respected.)



   
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