World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday July 9, 1940
Day 313

July 9, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report at bottom center: "Butter-Margarine Ration to be 6 oz. Total a week"


July 9, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the photo: "Captured A Nazi Airman"
(More in the Press and Journal below.)


July 9, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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Note the report at bottom right: "Tragedy Of Evacuee Children - Run Down By Express Train"


July 9, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report at bottom left: Prien's U-Boat Sank Arandora Star"
Also note the report in columns 3-4: "Brave Woman Captures Nazi Airman"


July 9, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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July 9, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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July 9, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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July 9, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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July 9, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 7: "All Canadians Over 16 To Be Registered"


July 9, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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July 9, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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July 9, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 3: "U.S. Marines Jeered, Japanese Ask Apology For Police Incident"
[See "Yanks Arrest Jap Officers" in The Cedar Rapids Gazette of July 7, 1940.]


July 9, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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July 9, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 3: "Apology For Japs' Arrest Is Demanded"


July 9, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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July 9, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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July 9, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Bei Einzelanflügen künftig kein Fliegeralarm mehr!
(No more air raid alarms for single aircraft approaches!)
2. Enthüllung von neuen britischen Raubplänen.
(Revelation of new British robbery plans.)


July 9, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Wie Frankreichs Generalstabskarten erbeutet wurden.
(How the maps of the French General Staff were captured.)



   
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