World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday April 12, 1940
Day 225

April 12, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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April 12, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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April 12, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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April 12, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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April 12, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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April 12, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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April 12, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 5: "Gneisenau is sunk"
(Gneisenau had been damaged by HMS Renown on Apr. 9th, but was not sunk.)
[More about Gneisenau here.]


April 12, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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April 12, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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April 12, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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April 12, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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April 12, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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April 12, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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April 12, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York.
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April 12, 1940: Page 12 of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, West Virginia.
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(Chloe Davis, already declared innocent by the court, still in custody and having her rights and freedom denied to her.)


April 12, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Bomben auf englischem Flugzeugträger.
(Bombs fall on British aircraft carrier.)


April 12, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Mißglückter englischer Luftangriff auf Bahnhof in Schleswig-Holstein.
(Unsuccessful British air raid on train station in Schleswig-Holstein.)



   
Page published April 12, 2021