World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday July 10, 1940
Day 314

July 10, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "70,000 Japanese Homes Flooded.


July 10, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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July 10, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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July 10, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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July 10, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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July 10, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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July 10, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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July 10, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 1: "Communist School Board Members Interned"


July 10, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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July 10, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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July 10, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 2: "Death Strikes Same Family Third Time"
Also note the report in columns 3-4: "Man Killed, Hailstones Damage Crops In Wild Thunderstorm Tuesday"
(70-Year-old Hervey Wentworth was killed, not by hail, but by a lightning strike.)


July 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 4: "Japanese Demand Public Apology by U.S. Marine Chief"
Also note the report at bottom left: "Leo, Film Lion, Is Saved As 12 Animals Die in Fire"


July 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Japs Threaten To Disarm U.S. Marines For Act"
[The report is concluded here.]
Also note the report in column 5: "Disgusted With Life, Kills Her 6 Children"
(The woman's name was Louise Nicosia, not Mrs. Louis Nickosia. She killed her six children using gas from the oven. A few days later in Derby, England another woman, Evelyn Hart, attempted to kill her five children using gas from the oven.)


July 10, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 3: "Killer Dies"
(Fred "Killer" Burke, suspected of organizing and participating in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre on Feb. 14, 1929, died of a heart attack in prison, instead of at the business end of a Tommy Gun.)


July 10, 1940: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
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July 10, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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July 10, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Hoher ungarischer Besuch.
(Distinguished Hungarian visit.)
2. Erstes italienische-englisches Seegefecht.
(First Italian-English sea battle.)


July 10, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Sensationelles französisches Eingeständnis.
(Sensational French admission.)
2. Bonnet gibt die Kriegsschuld Englands und Frankreichs offen zu.
(Bonnet openly admits the war guilt of England and France.)



   
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