World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday July 17, 1940
Day 321

July 17, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report in column 2: "A Cardinal Error"
(A German radio broadcast claimed that Cardinal Verdier had recently arrived in Paris and in an interview related the "amiability of the German occupation authorities" to the world. One small problem with the report was that the Verdier, the former Archbishop of Paris, had died before the Battle of France had begun.)


July 17, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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July 17, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England,
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July 17, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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July 17, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 2: "Man Who Saved Churchill"
(Mr. George Howard, who helped Winston Churchill escape from the Boers, passed away at the age of 87.)


July 17, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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July 17, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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July 17, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Crime Of Rotterdam - 30,000 Killed In Seven Minutes"
(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.)


July 17, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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July 17, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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July 17, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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July 17, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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July 17, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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July 17, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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July 17, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota.
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Note the report in column 1: "New Death Ray of Socket Type"
(91-year-old Milton McWhorter does it again, claiming a new design of his death ray. He had announced his first death ray in May 1940.)


July 17, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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July 17, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Erfolgreicher Angriff auf Scapa Flow.
(Successful attack on Scapa Flow.)
2. Festung Gibraltar erneut bombardiert.
(Fortress Gibraltar bombed again.)


July 17, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. England letztes ruhiges Wochenende.
(England's last quiet weekend.)
2. Katastrophenstimmung in London Churchill-Reden ziehen nicht mehr.
(Disaster mood in London - Churchill's speeches are no longer working.)



   
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