World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday April 3, 1940
Day 216

April 3, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 4: "U-Boat Bagged By Aberdeen Skipper"
(I can find no evidence that this was true.)
Also note the report in column 5" :299 Questions in U.S. Census"


April 3, 1940: A report from page 8 of the Press and Journal.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report at top right: "Nazis Checkmated By Chaos In Poland"


April 3, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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April 3, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Sinnlose Zerstückelung Mitteleuropas.
(Senseless dismemberment of central Europe.)


April 3, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Ueberschwemmungskatastrophe in Jugoslawien.
(Disasterous floods in Yugoslavia.)
2. Und wieder nach Scapa Flow!
(And back to Scapa Flow!)



   
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