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December 20, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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(The top stories of the day were the sinking of the German passenger ship Columbus and the death of the Commanding Officer of the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee.) |
Note the report at top right: "Germany's No. 3 Ship: One Blow After Another" |
(The report is inaccurate to a degree. Blücher was not torpedoed, but the cruiser Nürnberg was.) |
| [More about Blücher here.] |
| [More about Leipzig here.] |
Also note the report in column 2: "Nazis Have Lost More Than 50 U-boats] |
(A completely inaccurate report, the actual number was 9.) |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of the Evening Express, Liverpool, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Cattle Need Front And Rear Lights" |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of The Star, Sheffield, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Black-out Is War's Biggest Grouse" |
(Cities are being bombed, people are dying, ships being sunk, people dying, food and fuel rationing, people dying and the biggest complaint is having to live under black-out conditions. People are very strange and self-centered creatures.) |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report at top right: "Nazis Shameless Air Attacks on Defenceless Trawlers" |
(In the body of the report the ship City of Kobe is mentioned.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "Two More U-Boats Sunk" |
(The Minister of the Marine Nationale (French Navy) claims another two U-boats sunk by French forces. Up to this point the French had not sunk a single U-boat, including the two mentioned in the report.) |
Also note the report in column 2: "Red Battleship Sunk, Claim Finns" |
(Another false report, no Russian battleships, or any other Russian ships had been sunk by Finland.) |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Japs Must Pay Losses of U.S." |
Also note the report in column 4: "Boxer Admits Killing of Nazi" |
(This is the ongoing story of the murder of Dr. Walter Engelberg in New York City, first reported Dec. 6th.) |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 3: "50 German U-boats Sunk During War" |
(This is the same report from the British press earlier.) |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso, Texas. |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Last Naval Officer Of Civil War Dies" |
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December 20, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Deutsche Spähtrupps an der Arbeit. |
(German patrols at work.) |
2. Luftwaffen-Erfolge über der Nordsee. |
(Luftwaffe successes over the North Sea.) |
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Page published Dec. 20, 2020 |