World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday, January 11, 1940
Day 133

January 11, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report at top left: "Hindenburg Dam Hit"
(This is the second time since the war began that the press reported that the Hindenburg Dam had bet bombed. Neither were true. On Jan. 19, 1940 it was again reported that the dam was bombed. None of these reports seem to have been true.)
[See The Daily Mail and other newspapers of Jan. 19, 1940]


January 11, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the report in column 2: "Big Sylt Air Battle: Ministry's Denial"
(A statement from the Air Ministry which denies that the RAF bombed the Hindenburg Dam.)


January 11, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report at bottom left: "Japan Worried By U.S. Naval Plan"


January 11, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column 4: "U-Boats Attack Convoyed Liner"
(I don't know if this attack took place or not, but the Avila Star did not survive the war. The ship was sunk July 5, 1942 by U-201.)


January 11, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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January 11, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 5: "Hints Jap-U.S. Naval Building Race Possible"


January 11, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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January 11, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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January 11, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the headline: Rescuers Hope to Save 89 Entombed Miners"
(Headline writers seem to have had different opinions about how to describe the story. Other examples below.)


January 11, 1940: Front page of the Dunkirk Evening Observer, Dunkirk, New York.
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(In this paper the headline reads little hope.)


January 11, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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(In this headline the miners are near rescue.)


January 11, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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(In the final example they are all believed to be dead.)


January 11, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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January 11, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Angriffsgeist und Siegeswille deutscher Flieger. Wie deutscher Bomber feindliche Flugzeuge und Schiffe vernichten.
(Attacking spirit and the will to win of German pilots. How German bombers destroy enemy planes and ships.)
 
[I would like to point out that the German newspapers were controlled by the Nazi party. Notice that this newspaper bares the swastika at the top. I realize that most people are not able to read the reports in these papers, but I have translated the headline. You can see the contrast in the headlines of the German press compared to those of the English press just from the translations provided. Notice how the German press does not report German losses like the English press does of English losses. This is to keep the public uninformed as to the true nature of what the real war situation was.

I feel it is important to point this out for our younger readers, especially after the developments in the past two days in the USA. The giant, left-leaning technology companies, twitter, google, facebook, amazon, apple and many others, in collusion with the democrat party and the left-wing press, have done everything in their power to close down ANY opposing opinion. They have hidden vital information about the suspected corruption of Joe Biden and his family. They have intentionally hidden reports which link democrat politicians with the communist Chinese, politicians including Biden, Eric Swalwell, Jon Ossof and Dianne Feinstein who may have been compromised by the communist Chinese. They have shut down websites that they disagree with and much more.

For the freedom of the USA and the world, this is the most dangerous time since the rise of Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin. If only one side can choose what you read and what you hear and what you see, you end up with what you saw in Germany of the 1930's and 1940's. You also end up with a generation of people who are 100% indoctrinated. Have you ever wondered how Germany, a cultured, advanced society, in one generation could produce people who thought it was acceptable to build factories to murder millions of people, just because they were different? Complete control of the media is one of the ways the Nazis did it. Control of education/science was another important point in the triangle of evil, but that is for another time.

I will issue this warning from history, socialism, communism and nazism are branches of the same evil totalitarian tree, and always end the same way. With a population that is miserable an economy in shambles and mountains of dead bodies.]


January 11, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Exeter gesunken?
(Exeter sunk?)
2. Französischer Vorstoß bei Saarbrücken abgeweisen.
(French advance at Saarbrücken repulsed.)



   
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