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March 13, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Fewer Black-Out Accidents - Fall of Over Ten Per Cent" |
March 13, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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March 13, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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March 13, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 3: "U-Boat Bombed in German Waters" |
(This report was true, U-31 had been sunk, with all hands, on Mar. 11th by the RAF. This was the first U-boat sunk by aircraft alone. U-31 was raised and repaired, but sunk again on Nov. 2, 1940. |
March 13, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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March 13, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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March 13, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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March 13, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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March 13, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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March 13, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Tornado Kills 13 in Sweep Across Dixie" |
March 13, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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March 13, 1940: Front page of the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso, Texas. |
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March 13, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Oklahoma Governor Calls Out Guard To Enforce Demand for U.S. Grant" |
March 13, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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March 13, 1940: Installment #9 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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March 13, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Ostmark zwei Jahre im Reich. |
(Austria in the Reich for two years.) |
2. Friedensvertrag Sowjetrußland-Finnland. |
(Peace treaty between Russia and Finland.) |
March 13, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Moskau zum Friedensschluß mit Finnland: Grausame Niederlage der Kriegsbrandstifter. |
(Moscow to conclude peace deal with Finland: Cruel defeat of the arsonists.) |
2. Wiborg fällt an die Sowjetunion. |
(Viborg falls to the Soviet Union.) |
[Viborg was recaptured by the Finns in 1941, but lost to the Soviets again in 1944. Viborg remains as part of Russia to this day.] |
Page published March 13, 2021 |