World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday, February 8, 1940
Day 161

February 8, 1940: Front page of the North-Eastern Gazette, Middlesbrough, England.
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Note the headline: "More Mass Murder In Poland"
(What was happening could not be clearer.)


February 8, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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February 8, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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February 8, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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February 8, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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February 8, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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February 8, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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February 8, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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February 8, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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February 8, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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February 8, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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February 8, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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February 8, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Irische Freiheitskämpfer gehängt.
(Irish freedom fighters hanged.)
2. Der elsässische Führer Roos erschossen.
(The Alsatian leader Roos shot dead.)
[Karl Roos was the head of the Alsatian Nazi organization and was executed as a spy by the French.]


February 8, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Die Gesamtverluste der feindlichen und der neutralen Handelsschiffahrt.
(Total losses of enemy and neutral merchant shipping.)
2. 409 Einheiten mit 1 493 431 BRT.
(409 ships for a total of 1,493,431 tons.)



   
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