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April 16, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 5: "The Admiral Scheer Badly Damaged" |
(The identification of the ship was made by the commanding officer of HMS Spearfish, Lt. Commander Forbes, but he was incorrect, the ship he had torpedoed was Lützow. Admiral Scheer was at Wilhelmshaven under refit, which British intelligence should have known. Lützow (ex-Deutschland) was out of action until March 1941.) |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Ten Towns In Central Area Are Flooded" |
(The sudden thawing of snow, before climate change was blamed for everything, caused the flooding.) |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Japan Pepared To Grab Dutch Pacific Isles" |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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Note the report at bottom center: "Census Taker to Travel 22 Miles on Snowshoes, Skies to COunt Two Fur Trappers" |
(Now that's dedication.) |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the headline report: "Planes Sink British Cruiser" |
(Another propaganda report from Germany, no British cruiser had been sunk or damaged.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "Drunk Driving Is Most Destructive Force On Highways, Quiz Shows" |
(How many years did it take before our "representatives" who are supposed to be acting in the best interest of the citizens, actually did something about this?) |
Also note the report in column 6: "Sabotage Plan Is Held Found" |
(The Dies committee investigating American communists who, under orders of Stalin in Moscow, had planned to disrupt supplies going from the U.S.A. to our Allies in England.) |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York. |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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April 16, 1940: Part 2 of "What's Going On In Soviet Russia? A five part series by Spencer Williams. Published in The Winnipeg Tribune. |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Die gepanzerte deutsche Faust liegt auf der Nordsee. |
(The armored German fist awaits in the North Sea.) |
2. Die deutsche Nordland-Aktion schuf eine neue strategische Lage. |
(The German action in the north created a new strategic location.) |
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April 16, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Wo landeten denn die Engländer in Norwegen? |
(Where did the English land in Norway?) |
2. Jedenfalls nicht in den von Deutschen besetzten Räumen! |
(Certainly not in the areas occupied by Germany!) |
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Page published April 16, 2021 |