World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday, March 27, 1940
Day 209

March 27, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 27, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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March 27, 1940: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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March 27, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 2: "Graf Spee Men Mutinied - Official Report"
(I know of no evidence that this is true.)
 
Also note the report in column 3: "Dying Barber Cuts Customer's Throat"
(As the late, great Paul Harvey would say, here is a strange.)


March 27, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 27, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column 2: "53 Sailors On Charge Of Mutiny"


March 27, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 27, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 27, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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March 27, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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March 27, 1940: Front page of The San Antonio Light, San Antonio, Texas.
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Note the report in column 2-3: "Killer Of Nagging Wife Goes Free"
(Mary Leschisin must have been some piece of work. Her husband admitted to shooting her, he stated he should have done it 15 years earlier. Her son, her sister and several neighbors testified for him and as many as fifty others wanted to testify for him. The grand jury no billed him. Like I said, she must have been some piece of work.)


March 27, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 27, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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March 27, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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March 27, 1940: Installment #21 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 27, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. London will deutsche Soldatenehre beschmutzen.
(London wants to tarnish the German soldier's honor.)


March 27, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Entscheidende Antwort auf die Kriegsausweitungspläne im Südosten.
(Crucial response to the war expansion plans in the southeast.)
2. Messerschmitt gegen Hurricane.
(Messerschmitt versus Hurricane.)



   
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