World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, March 26, 1940
Day 208

March 26, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the report in column 4: "Actress In Real Spy Drama"


March 26, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 26, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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March 26, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 2: "Nazis To Exploit Poland"
Also note the report in column 3: "Spies Among Refugees In Britain"


March 26, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 26, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 26, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report at bottom center: "North China Suffers Heavily Under Jap Control; Big Crops In South Can't Aid Starving"


March 26, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 26, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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March 26, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 7-8: "Worst Blizzard In 52 Years Grips New York State Region"
(Some snow drifts reached 30' according to the report. This should make you ask why the media and government caused such a panic over 12" of snow in the northeast recently. Seems that that region has contended with far worse. Yet the news coverage for the Feb. 2021 snow storms were predicting something just less than a catastrophe. It occurred to me that the propaganda of climate change was at work once again. But as you can see, we have had terrible snow storms for many, many years. In Texas however, it was a catastrophe, not due to the snow, but due to the below zero temperatures. Even with that, Texas has also had such weather before. Why were we not prepared for this, well they are having a commission about that and someday they might tell us.)


March 26, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York.
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Note the report in column 5: "Lost Train Found Stalled in Drifts"


March 26, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota.
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Note the headline and related report: "Blizzard Grips East, 7 Die" and Fear Milk, Food Shortage: Worst Storm 52 Years"
Also note the report in column 3: "Mauretania On Way Through Canal"
(Another report giving the location of an important ship to the enemy.)


March 26, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 26, 1940: Installment #20 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 26, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Britischer Flieger beschießt dänische Zivilisten.
(British airmen shoots Danish civilians.)


March 26, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Norwegen protestiert gegen britische Seeräuberei.
(Norwegian protests against British piracy.)
2. Kommt jetzt der Balkan dran.
(Now comes the Balkan's)



   
Page published March 26, 2021