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January 8, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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January 8, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Ex-Hull Trawler Sinks With 17 Hands" |
January 8, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report at top right: "Ship Blown Up: Crew of 34 Escapes" |
January 8, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Girl Carried Off By Eagle" |
(May have been a story written by Mr. Ripley.) |
January 8, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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January 8, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Buried Treasure Found On Cocos Island" |
(This report is about the Loot of Lima, also known as the Treasure of Lima. It took until April to confirm that the treasure had not been found. Eighty-one years later when this page was published, the treasure has still not been found.) |
January 8, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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January 8, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 2: "34 Below Coldest Reading In Ontario" |
January 8, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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January 8, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Death Takes Writer Of Favorite Lullaby" |
(Announcing the death of Effie Canning Charlton, who wrote Rock-a-Bye, Baby.) |
January 8, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Victory Over Jap Invader In Kwantung" |
January 8, 1940: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana. |
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January 8, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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January 8, 1940: Front page of |
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1. Warum der Jude Hore Belisha zurücktrat. Ein Schachzug des Judentums, um dem jüdischen Einfluß zu veredecken. |
(Why the Jew Hore-Belisha resigned. A move by Judaism To Cover Up Jewish Influence.) |
2. Englands Schatten über dem Norden. |
(England's shadow over the north.) |
January 8, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Der Szenewechsel in London. |
(The change of the scene in London.) |
2. Auch der Direktor der britischen Zensur zurückgetreten. |
(The Director of censorship in Britain alas resigned.) |
Page published January 8, 2021 |