World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday April 22, 1940
Day 235

April 22, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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April 22, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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April 22, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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April 22, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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April 22, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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April 22, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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April 22, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 6: "Guess Worth Just $80,000"
(Not much to do in Alaska at that time I suppose.)


April 22, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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April 22, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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April 22, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Note the headline: "Nazi Bomb Kills U.S. Official In Norway"
(Capt. Robert M. Losey, an assistant military attaché, was the first American known to have been killed by the Germans in Norway.)


April 22, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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April 22, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York.
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Note the report in column 1: "U.S.-Japan War Certain, Says Taussig"
(Rear Admiral Joseph K. Taussig was of course correct. The Roosevelt administration did some quick damage control the next day and distanced themselves from Taussig's statement. Taussig was given an official reprimand, which was later removed from his file.)


April 22, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the headline: "Spring Snow Storm Raises Havoc"


April 22, 1940: Front page of The Nome Nugget, Nome, Alaska.
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April 22, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Schwere Schläge gegen britische Landungsmanöver.
(Heavy blows against British landing attempts.)


April 22, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Teuer bezahlte britische Landungen
(High price paid by British during landings.)


April 22, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Wieder zwei britische Kreuzer versenkt.
(Again three British cruisers sunk.)



   
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