World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, February 6, 1940
Day 159

February 6, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 4: "Register With Your Butcher Now"
Also note the report in column 4: "Artist Helped In Rescue, Then Died"


February 6, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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February 6, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report at bottom left: "Largest Warship Built By France"


February 6, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report at top right: "Forty of Nazis' Original U-Boat Fleet Sunk"
(The actual number was 12, only 11 by enemy action.)


February 6, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report at bottom right: "Heaps Of Corpses Left For Days In Public Squares As Warning: German Soldiers' Tales Of Nazi Terror In Poland"


February 6, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column 3: "Death For Ration Forgeries"


February 6, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 3 at bottom: "Dead Naval Hero Honored By King"


February 6, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 1: "Death Penalty For Information Leakage To Enemy"
(The British considering imposing the death penalty for leaking information to the Germans.)


February 6, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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February 6, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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February 6, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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February 6, 1940: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana.
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February 6, 1940: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah.
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February 6, 1940: Two reports from the Press and Journal.
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February 6, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. London will seine Geleitzug-Legende retten. Auf Geheiß Churchills neue Lügen um jeden Preis
(London wants to save it's convoy legend. At the behest of Churchill, new lies at all costs.)
2. Britisches Minensuchboot gesunkt.
(British minesweeper sunk.)
[The German version of the loss of HMS Sphinx.]


February 6, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Schwaremeerpakt Vorschlag - neues britisches Manöver auf den Balkan.
(Black Sea pact proposal - New British maneuver in the Balkan's)



   
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