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December 14, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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(The headline stories of the day were the reports of the Battle of the River Plate and the Soviet expulsion from the League of Nations. On this day it was finally learned that the German raider that was operating in the South Atlantic was the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee and not, as thought, the Admiral Scheer. However, some press outlets continued to report that the ship brought to battle was Admiral Scheer.) |
Note the report in column 4: "British Destroyer Lost In Collision" |
(HMS Duchess had been rammed and sunk by the British battleship HMS Barham. Barham would also end up on the bottom of the ocean when U-331 torpedoed the ship on Nov. 25, 1941.) |
Also note the report in column 6: "Submarine That Spared Bremen Sinks U-boat, Torpedoes Cruiser" |
(HMS Salmon had sunk U-36 on Dec. 4th and had in fact hit two German cruisers with torpedoes.) |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the photo at bottom: "Survivors of the Rawalpindi" |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Battered Raider Is The Graf Spee" |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of The Melbourne Herald, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of the East Liverpool Review, East Liverpool, Ohio. |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of the Briesetal-Bote, Birkenwerder, Germany. |
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1. Deutsches Panzerschiffe siegreich im Atlantik. |
(German Panzership victorious in the Atlantic.) |
2. Wie die Bremen heimkehrte. |
(How the Bremen got home.) |
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December 14, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Seegefecht an der La-Plata-Mündung. |
(Naval battle near the La Plata estuary.) |
2. Admiral Graf Spee im Kampf mit 3 britischen Kreuzern. |
(Admiral Graf Spee in battle with three British cruisers.) |
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Page published Dec. 14, 2020 |