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December 27, 1939: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "U-boat Chasing Us SOS" |
(The ship, SS Dixcove, escaped this time, but it was sunk by U-107 on Sept. 24, 1941.) |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "4,000-Years-Old Skeleton Found" |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report at the bottom of column 6: "Earth Tremor Recorded In London" |
(The earth was moving all over the globe this day, with a major earthquake reported in Turkey and another large earthquake in Los Angeles.) |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Despair And Bitterness Lot Of Poles" |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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(Note that this paper reported both the Turkish and California earthquakes.) |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Japanese Dispatches Say 13,000 Chinese Killed In South China Offensives" |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Japanese Planes Bomb Chinese City" |
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December 27, 1939: Installment #3 of "Hitler Speaks" from The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 27, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Silvester: Polizeistunde 1 Uhr! |
(New Year's Eve: Police hour 1 a.m.!) |
2. Italiens Luftverkehr schwer getroffen. |
(Italy's air traffic hit hard.) |
3. Wieder direkter Eisenbahngüterverkehr mit Rußland. |
(Direct rail traffic with Russia again.) |
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Page published Dec. 27, 2020 |