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April 17, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report in column at top right: "Submarine Overdue Presumed Lost" |
(Sadly true, HMS Thistle had been sunk with all hands on Apr. 10 by U-4.) |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 1: "27's To Register On May 25" |
Also note the report in column 6: "Battleships For Germany" |
(The report is probably referring to Bismarck and Tirpitz.) |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the photo of HMS Glowworm. |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana. |
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Note the report at bottom center: "Imperial Wizard Orders Ku Klux Klan to Unmask" |
(Always good to be able to identify your enemy.) |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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April 17, 1940: Part 3 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 17, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Englischer Kreuzer durch Bomben versenkt. |
(English cruiser sunk by bombs.) |
[A propaganda piece, no British cruiser was sunk.] |
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April 17, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Neue englische Beschießung Narviks. |
(New English bombardment of Narvik.) |
2. Landungen nur bei Harstad gelungen. |
(Landings only successful at Harstad.) |
3. Erzbahnganz in deutschen Händen. |
(Ore railway totally in German hands.) |
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Page published April 17, 2021 |