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April 10, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Bluecher, Karlsruhe, Sunk by Norwegians" |
(Blücher was sunk by the Norwegians, but Karlsruhe was sunk by the British submarine HMS Truant N-68.) |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Bremen Reported Sunk" |
(Since the beginning of the war, the western press was obsessed with the famous German liner Bremen. This report is completely false as Bremen was not involved with the German invasion of Norway. Bremen was in dock at Bremerhaven, Germany under repair and there were plans to use the ship, but she was set on fire on Mar. 16, 1941 and destroyed. The ship was scrapped during the war and the steel was used for the German war effort. Some of her hull, which was towed to a sandbar off Blexen, Germany in 1946, still remains where it was discarded.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "Food Rationing for Danes" |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Child Is Cleared In Mass Murder" |
(11 year-old Chloe Davis, who was all but convicted in the press, now given three paragraphs when it is decided she is innocent. That's the American way, accuse in big bold headlines, acquit in small print below the fold.) |
Also note the report at bottom right: "Iceland Breaks Off From Danish Rule" |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Snake Murderer Is Sent to San Quentin" |
Also note the report in column 5: "Actress Undergoes Operation on Ship" |
(The actress Sonja Henie, former Olympic ice skating champion and film star, had to undergo throat surgery on the passenger ship Lurline.) |
[Note that the Chloe Davis acquittal does not appear on the front page of the Bakersfield Californian. Their readers were seeing bold headlines when she was believed to be guilty, but when the court says she is innocent, the four paragraph report is on page 2.] |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York. |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Sieg der Luftwaffe über feindliche Flotte. |
(Victory of the Luftwaffe over the enemy fleet.) |
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April 10, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Oberkommando der Wehrmacht - schildert die Ereignisse des gestrigen Tages |
(High Command of the German Armed Forces describe the events of yesterday.) |
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Page published April 10, 2021 |
