World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, March 16, 1940
Day 198

March 16, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the report in column 4: "Hospital Girl For Every Wounded Nazi"
Also note the report in column 6: "Graf Spee Sailors To Be Interned"


March 16, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "Admiralty Cash Awards For Information"


March 16, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report in column 4: "Shortage Of Meat"
Also note the report in column 2: "Gandhi Wants British Troops To Stay"


March 16, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report at top right: "Gestapo Swoop On Czech Officers And Priests"


March 16, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "No More Bread By The Yard - New Food Restrictions For France"
(It's not just bread, but milk and cream chocolate also.)


March 16, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 16, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report at bottom left: "Czech Doped To Sign Treaty"
Also note the report at bottom right: "Set Fire To Wife"


March 16, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 3: "Jews Reveal Mass Killings"


March 16, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 5: "Nazis Humble More Priests"
(The report also states; "Soviet authorities in Russian-Occupied Poland have discouraged the killing of priests in favor of more subtle and "scientific" methods of instilling atheism. (Don't forget we have all been told for the last year to "believe in the science." This just being a small reminder that the "science" is often perverted to suit the people who are currently in power at any given time.) In place of violence the Soviet regime has confiscated church possessions and deprived the clergy of its revenues." More evidence that supports my position that communism, socialism, fascism and nazism are just branches of the same evil, totalitarian tree.)


March 16, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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March 16, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota.
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Note the headline: "Eight Punished at Whipping Post"
(This report even surprised me. A sheriff in New Castle, Delaware, whipped 8 prisoners with a cat of nine tales. At least the sheriff did not disproportionately punish blacks, four men were white and four were black.)
Also note the report in column 6: "Convicted Death Four Driven Over 1,000-ft. Cliff"
(Laurel H. Crawford convicted of the murders of his family in Dec. 1939.)


March 16, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, MOntana.
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Note the report in column 2: "Reds, Japanese Resume Clashes Along Border"
Also note the report in column 3: "1940 Census Row Causes Rancor Among Officials"
Also note the photo at top: "25 Fruit Pickers Die In Truck-Train Crash"


March 16, 1940: Front page of the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso, Texas.
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(Note that this paper is reporting 27 dead in the truck-train crash at the Texas-Mexico border.)


March 16, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 4-5: "Census Battle May Shift From Congress to Courts"


March 16, 1940: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah.
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Note the report in column 1: "Blast Traps 200 Miners In Ohio Shaft"


March 16, 1940: Installment #12 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 16, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Was führende USA-Kreise erklären.
(What leading U.S. circles are saying.)


March 16, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Neuregelung des Ladenschlusses steht bevor.
(New regulations on closing time for shops are immient.
2. Die schwedische Dichterin Selma Lagerlöf ist tote.
(The Swedish poet, Selma Lagerlöf is dead.)
3. Auf der Suche nach neuen Kriegsschauplägen.
(Searching for new views on the war.)



   
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