World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday, March 7, 1940
Day 189

March 7, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 7, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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March 7, 1940: Front page of the Derby Daily Telegraph, Derby, England.
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March 7, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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March 7, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 7, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 7, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report at bottom : "Huge British Tanker Reported Torpedoed By Sub Off Land's End"
(San Florentino hit a mine, but did not sink. The ship was sunk by U-94 on Oct. 1, 1941.)


March 7, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 7, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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March 7, 1940: Front page of the Dunkirk Evening News, Dunkirk, New York.
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March 7, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Note the report in column 6: "Ribbentrop Says War to End in One Year"
(Only 5 years later the war came to an end.)


March 7, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 7, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 7, 1940: Installment #4 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the cartoon about the census.


March 7, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Engländer brandmarken Lügen-Churchill. Ein aufsehenerregender Bericht des Shipping Gazette.
(England brands Churchill a liar. A sensational report in the Shipping Gazette.)


March 7, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Insgesamt 16 italienische Schiffe von den Briten beschlagnahmt.
(A total of 16 Italian ships siezed by the British.)



   
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