World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, September 26, 1939
Day 26

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.)
[More about HMS Thetis here.]


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.)


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"


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.)


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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