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July 1, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report at bottom center: "Two British SHips Reported Sunk" |
(Neither ship was sunk, however, neither would survive the war. Guido was sunk on Mar. 8, 1943 by U-526 and Zarian was sunk in a combined attack by U-406 and U-591 Dec. 28-29, 1942.) |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 4: "H.M.S. Grampus Presumed Lost" |
(The report is correct, HMS Grampus had been sunk, with all hands, by Italian torpedo boats on June 16th.) |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Tide of Refugee Misery Turns To Bessarabian Frontier" |
(An estimated 55,000 people fleeing the Russian communist hoards.) |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report at top left: "Texas Flood Death Toll Gets To 10, With 9 Others Missing" |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Germans Say 500 Jews Among Slain" |
(From this report it's not exactly clear what happened, but as was always the case, it was not safe for Jews, no matter what country they were in.) |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Balbos Nachfolger in Nordafrika: Graziani. |
(Balbo's successor in North Africa is Graziani.) |
2. Erfolge unserer U-Boote. |
(Successes of our U-Boats.) |
| Note the report at center right: "Kaptlt. Prien Versenkte über 50 000 BRT" |
(The report is correct in the respect that Günther Prien had sunk over 50,000 tons of shipping, including the Arandora Star, which was carrying German and Italian civilian internees. Over 800 people died in the sinking. However, the claim of an Orion class cruiser being sunk was not true.) |
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July 1, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Bomben auf Rüstungswerke in England und Schottland. |
(Bombs dropped on armaments factories in England and Scotland.) |
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Page published July 1, 2021 |