World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday May 28, 1940
Day 271

May 28, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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Note the report in column 2: "The Nelson Of Japan - Britain Pays Homage To Japanese Admiral"


May 28, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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May 28, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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May 28, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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May 28, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 6: "Move Against Communist Party"


May 28, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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May 28, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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May 28, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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May 28, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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May 28, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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May 28, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 1: "France Denudes Lindbergh Of Escadrille Honors"


May 28, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 3: "Nazis Order U.S. Vessel Unhindered"
(Follow-up report of the SS President Roosevelt.)


May 28, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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May 28, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Note the report at bottom left: "Lafayette Escadrille Pilots Expel Lindbergh for Speech"


May 28, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Bedingungslose Kapitulation der belgischen Armee.
(Unconditional surrender of the Belgian Army.)


May 28, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Tiefer Einbruch in die Feindfront bis vor Ypern.
(Deep penetration into the enemy front as far as Ypres.)



   
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