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December 28, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the headline at top right: "Sugar and Meat to be Rationed" |
December 28, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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December 28, 1939: Front page of the Grimsby Daily Telegraph, Grimsby, England. |
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December 28, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the headline at top left: "Meat Rationing January 15" |
Also note the report in column 6: "Sirocco's Third U-boat" |
(In reality no U-boats had been sunk by French forces to date.) |
December 28, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 7: "100,000 Jap Casualties In Big Drive Chinese Claim" |
Also note that this paper is reporting an earthquake in Morocco. Earthquakes were reported yesterday in Turkey, Los Angeles and London. |
December 28, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 28, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 28, 1939: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report at bottom center: "Hitler At Crossroads" |
(The reported rift between Hitler and Göring was untrue.) |
December 28, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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December 28, 1939: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 28, 1939: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah. |
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December 28, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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December 28, 1939: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 28, 1939: Installment #4 of "Hitler Speaks" from The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 28, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Neuer Flugzeug-Vorstoß gegen die deutsche Nordseeküste gescheitert. |
(Another aircraft attack against the German North Sea coast failed.) |
Page published Dec. 28, 2020 |