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December 29, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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(The top stories of the day are the earthquake in Turkey and the damage to a British battleship. The name of the battleship was not released, however it was HMS Barham. The ship had been torpedoed by Kapitänleutnant Fritz-Julius Lemp and U-30, the same man who sank Athenia on Sept. 3, 1939.) |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of the Evening Express, Liverpool, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "New Order To Prague Jews" |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Jews Must Leave Czech Territory" |
(A much shortened version of the AP report from the previous newspaper.) |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Radio Messages From Captured British Airmen" |
Also note the report in column 6: "Poles Classed with Jews" |
Also note the report at bottom center: "Day By Day War Talks" |
(This report lays out the British intention to mine British waters.) |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 1: "100,000 Jap Casualties Dec. 1-Dec. 25" |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.) |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Dies Lists Eight Bakersfield Reds" |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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Note the report at bottom center: "Ruins of What Is Believed to Be Home Caesar Provided Cleopatra Found Near Rome" |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of the Centralia Sentinel, Centralia, Illinois. |
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Note the report in column 8: "1,218,462 Chinese Killed, Say Japs" |
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December 29, 1939: Installment #5 of "Hitler Speaks" from The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 29, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Ueber eine Million Tonnen versenkt! |
(Over one million tons sunk!) |
2. Die große Erdbeben-Katastrophe in der Türkei. |
(The great earthquake disaster in Turkey.) |
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Page published Dec. 29, 2020 |