World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday, March 14, 1940
Day 196

March 14, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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March 14, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 14, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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March 14, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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March 14, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 14, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 14, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report at bottom left: "23 Fruit Pickers Are Killed When Train Smashes Truck"
[More about this in the U.S. papers below.]


March 14, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 14, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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March 14, 1940: Front page of the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso, Texas.
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Note the headline: "Texas Train Kills 25"
(This terrible crash happened just north of the Mexican border in Texas. The number of dead would reach 27. Eighty-one years later on Mar. 3, 2021 there was another deadly collision, this time just 10 miles from the Mexican border in California. A Ford SUV packed 27 illegal aliens, that had just crashed the border, was hit by a rock hauling truck killing 13.)


March 14, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report at bottom left: "225 Million Year Old Egg Keeps Origin Secrets from Scientists"


March 14, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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Note the report at bottom left: "Martial Law Declared In Oklahoma To Stop Big Job"


March 14, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 14, 1940: Installment #10 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 14, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Schwere Niederlage Englands und Frankreichs.
(Great defeat for England and France.)
[Referring to the Finnish-Russian peace treaty.]


March 14, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Kapitänleutnant Schuhart meldet: Weitere 24 600 BRT versenkt.
(Kapitänleutnant Schuhart reports: another 24,600 tons of shipping sunk.)
[Otto Schuhart was commanding officer of U-29.)



   
Page published March 14, 2021