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July 11, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Hood and Ark Royal Are Safe" |
(The Italians had claimed damaging both HMS Hood and HMS Ark Royal in an air attack. While the attack did take place, no bombs hit either ship.) |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 3: "30,000 Killed In One City" |
(The "well informed Dutch circles" mentioned inflated the figure by more than 30 times. The death toll from the attack on Rotterdam was roughly 900 people. Only a few times during the war was the casualty figure for a bombing raid so high. The highest death toll for a conventional air raid was over 100,000 when Tokyo was bombed on Mar. 9-10, 1945. In July 1943 Hamburg, Germany was raided by both American and British forces, which caused a firestorm killing some 35-40,000 people, but this raid started on July 24 and lasted until July 30th. The bombing of Dresden, Germany (Feb. 13-15, 1945) killed about 25,000 people. The deadliest air raids were the two atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan in August of 1945, in which as many as a quarter of a million people initially died, with more than 100,000 dying later from the effects of the two bombs. Nobody really knows exactly how many people died in any of those attacks, but those are the best figures available.) |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Tried To Kill U.S. President?" |
(A report of railroad spikes having been removed from tracks which the Presidential train had used to leave Stanton, Delaware.) |
Also note the report in column 7: "Houses Inundated in Japanese Flood" |
(A reported 26 inches of rain fell in the course on one night flooding 73,000 houses in Osaka, Japan.) |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Find Spy In B.B.C." |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Widespread Bombing Plot In U.S. Just Beginning" |
(Bombs had been set at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but were discovered before they detonated. One police spokesman said that seven bombs had been found around the city and that "some of them" were found under construction at the Workers School, a suspected communist run school, where two people were arrested. More about this report in the U.S. papers below.) |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Two Bombs Found Near Convention Hall" |
Also note the report in coulmn 6: "Red Candidates File Papers" |
(Communists in Maine filed papers to enter the gubernatorial and state senatorial race.) |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Two Bombs Reported Found Near G.O.P. Convention Hall" |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the headline and report at top right: "France Becomes Fascist State - Third Republic Ends As Dictator Powers Conferred On Petain" |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts. |
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Note the headline and report in column 7: "Two Huge British Warships Damaged - Italians Claim Ark Royal and Hood Bombed" |
(An entire column on the front page is devoted to the Italian propaganda announcement. The Admiralty denial is published on page three and is the last paragraph in the report. However, buried deep in the report is a claim by the Italians that a Queen Elizabeth class battleship had been sunk in combat with the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare. One would think that the loss of a capital ship would have been the headline. Nevertheless, the entire report was false.) |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "U.S. Japan To Settle Dispute Over Arrests" |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Verstärkte Luftoffensive. |
(Reinforced air offensive.) |
2. Tag und Nacht Bomben auf England. |
(Day and night bombs fall on England.) |
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July 11, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Britischer Geleitzug im Kanal aufgerieben. |
(British convoy wiped out in the Channel.) |
2. Ein Kreuzer und vier Handelsschiffe versenkt - 10 Jäger abgeschossen. |
(One cruiser and four merchantmen sunk, 10 fighters shot down.) |
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Page published July 11, 2021 |
