World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday, March 29, 1940
Day 211

March 29, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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March 29, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 29, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report at top right: "Far Greater Food Stocks Than Before The War"


March 29, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 5: "Nazi Fleet Coming Out"
(An alarming report, which was completely false.)


March 29, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 29, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 29, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 29, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 5: "Tornado Toll Placed at 30"


March 29, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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March 29, 1940: Front page of the Dunkirk Evening Observer, Dunkirk, New York.
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March 29, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 4: "Hobo Census Set For Night Time"


March 29, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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March 29, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 29, 1940: Installment #23 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 29, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. So kamen Englands Luftsiege zustande.
(How England's aerial victories took place.)


March 29, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Sühne für den Raubüberfall in der Brennerstraße.
(Atonement for the robbery on the Brennerstrasse.)
2. Wieder ein Geleitzug gesprengt.
(Another convoy destroyed.)



   
Page published March 29, 2021