World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, January 16, 1940
Day 138

January 16, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the report in column 5: Nazi Terrorism In Bohemia"


January 16, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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Note the report in column 2: "Youngest V.C. Dies Of Wound"
Also note the report in column 3: "R.A.F. Pilot (At Lunch) Bombs U-boat"
(A nice tale, but if they did bomb a U-boat, it was not sunk.)


January 16, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report at bottom right: "Robbery At Rawalpindi Captain's Home"


January 16, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 3: "8,500 Homes Afire In Japan"


January 16, 1940: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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January 16, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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January 16, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 6: "Deadlock In U.S.A.-Japan Talks"
Also note the report in column 8: "Loss Of Life In Warsaw"


January 16, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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January 16, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report at center right: "51 Below Adds To Suffering In Bomb-Torn Finn Cities"


January 16, 1940: Front page of CZAS Polish Times, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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January 16, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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January 16, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan.
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January 16, 1940: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah.
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January 16, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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January 16, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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January 16, 1940: Installment #2 of "Four Years Against Hitler" from the Press and Journal.)
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January 16, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Britische U-Boote in der Deutschen Bucht versenkt.
(British submarines sunk in the German Bight.)


January 16, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Zwei britische U-Boote vernichtet.
(Three British submarines destroyed.)



   
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