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December 19, 1939: Front page of the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, Grimsby, England. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Let's Send A New Year Gift" |
(The newspaper is accepting donations to buy tobacco and cigarettes to send to British troops abroad. My how times have changed.) |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the photo of Admiral Graf Spee. |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Nazi Repression of Poles" |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Report Finnish Guns Sink Big Russ Warship" |
(The report was not true.) |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of CZAS Polish Times, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the headline: "Dr. Engelberg's Alleged Slayer Arrested" |
(Dr. Walter Engelberg's murder was first reported on Dec. 6, 1939.) |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report at bottom right: "Nazi Cruiser Leipzig Torpedoed By British" |
(The report was inaccurate, Leipzig was not hit in the attack only the escort ship F-9 was sunk.) |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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Note the photo at top left of Kapitän zur See Hans Langsdorff. |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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December 19, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. 34 Bomber nördlich Helgoland von deutschen Jägern abgeschossen. |
(German fighters shot down 34 bombers during raid in north Heilgoland.) |
2. Luftangriff von über 50 englischen Flugzeugen |
(Air raid by over 50 British aircraft.) |
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Page published Dec. 19, 2020 |