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September 26, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 1: "More Bodies From Thetis" |
(The British submarine HMS Thetis sank while on trials June 1, 1939.) |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of The Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "No Food For Jews" |
(A short, sad preview of what was to come. Don't believe people who say nobody knew what was happening to the Jews.) |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of the Telegraph & Independent, Sheffield, England. |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Heavy Jap Casualties Claimed By Chinese" |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Battleships, Subs and Planes in Navy Fight" |
(On Sept. 25 HM battleships Nelson and Rodney along with several HM cruisers, destroyers and HMS Ark Royal were attacked by Ju-88s of I./KG 30 while attempting to escort a damaged submarine, HMS Spearfish, back to port.) |
Also note the report in column 2: "Passengers tell of destruction of submarine" |
(Kafiristan was sunk by U-53, but the submarine was not sunk in a counterattack as the story says it was.) |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of the CZAS Polish Times, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of The Daily Times-News, Burlington, North Carolina. |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of The Oelwein Daily Register, Oelwein, Iowa. |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of The Daily Independent, Murphysboro, Illinois. |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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September 26, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Amerikanische Bewunderung für deutsche Handelskriegsführung. |
(American attitude on German trade warfare.) |
2. Kampf um Warschau beginnt! |
(Battle for Warsaw begins.) |
3. Fort und Teil der Vorstadt Mokotow erobert. Am unteren San nochmals 2000 Gefangene. |
(Fort Mokotow and part of suburbs captured. Another 2,000 prisoners captured at the lower San.) |
4. So wurde britisches Piratentum beschämt. |
(This is how British piracy was shamed.) German story about the sinking of Kafiristan. |
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Page published Sept. 26, 2020 |