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September 16, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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September 16, 1939: Front page of the Daily Herald, London, England. |
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September 16, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Athenia Sinking Not Closed" |
(Athenia was the first British ship sunk in World War II.) |
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September 16, 1939: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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September 16, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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September 16, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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September 16, 1939: Front page of The Billings Gazette, Billings, Montana. |
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September 16, 1939: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Sword Secrets Unearthed" |
Also note the report at bottom center: "Bremen Captured" |
(Bremen was a famous German passenger ship. This report however is incorrect. Bremen was never captured or sunk by the Allies.) |
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September 16, 1939: Front page of The Cumberland News, Cumberland, Maryland. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "British Admiralty Declares Its Forces Have Sunk German U-boats" |
(It would be accurate to say that the British forces had sunk a U-boat. By this date only one U-boat had been sunk during the war.) |
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September 16, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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September 16, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Ueberraschende Wendung im Totschlagsprozess Dr. Fink. |
(Surprising twist in the murder trial of Dr. Fink.) |
2. Sowjetrissische-japanische Verständigung. |
(Soviet Russia and Japanese come to understanding.) |
3. Przemnsl und Bialnstok genommen. |
(Przemysl and Bialystok taken.) |
4. Französischer Minenkreuzer nach Explosion gesunken. |
(French mine cruiser sank due to explosion.) [This would be the minelaying cruiser Pulton, which exploded at Casablanca, French Morocco on Sept. 13 while unloading mines.] |
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Page published Sept. 16, 2020 |