World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday July 19, 1940
Day 323

July 19, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report in column 1: "Italian Cruiser Sunk"
(The cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni, was sunk by HMAS Sydney with help from HMS Hyperion and HMS Ilex in the Battle of Cape Spada. HMAS Sydney was sunk with all hands on Nov. 19, 1941 by the German Hilfskreuzer Komoran, but Komoran also sank due to battle damage inflicted by HMAS Sydney.)


July 19, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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July 19, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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July 19, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 7: "Destroyer Lost In Collision"
(HMS Imogen was rammed and sunk by the cruiser HMS Glasgow.)


July 19, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report at top left: "Muzzling Press"
(The firestorm created by the Cabinet for the proposal to place the Government in charge of the press was starting to get hotter. Notice all the Australian papers have devoted a lot of ink to this report.)


July 19, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note that almost the entire front page is devoted to the press takeover.


July 19, 1940: Page 2 of the Daily Telegraph, which is completely devoted to the press takeover.
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July 19, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report at top right: "The People Understand"


July 19, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Note the report at top right: "Cabinet To Review decision over Press-Radio control"


July 19, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 3: "Nazi Sea Raider Accounts For 2 British Vessels"
(This report was true. The Hilfskreuzer Widder (Kapitänleutnant Hellmuth von Rucktescheel) sank both ships. Davision on July 10th and King John on July 13th.)


July 19, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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July 19, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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July 19, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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July 19, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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July 19, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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July 19, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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July 19, 1940: Front page of the Alton Evening Telegraph, Alton, Illinois.
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Note the report in column 1: "Loving Tribute Paid at Wadlow Funeral Rites"
(The funeral for Robert Wadlow, the World's Tallest Man.)
 
Also note the report in column 3: "27,000 Persons Visit Bier of Robert Wadlow"
[See "World's Tallest Man Dies" in the Alton Evening Telegraph for July 15, 1940.]


July 19, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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Note the report at top right: "Anti-Semitism Rises In France Under Hitler"
(The same thing is happening here in the United States. In fact, another unprovoked, brutal attack against a Jew in New York City took place just yesterday. The rise in anti-Semitism may be due, in part, to statements made by people like Ilhan Omar, a black, Somali, anti-Semite and Minnesota congressperson. Also, statements made by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the anti-Semite Rashida Tlaib, congresspersons from New York and Michigan respectively. To be fair, it is not just these hateful people, but many like them in the democrat party. Add that to the fact that the leadership, i.e., Nancy Pelosi, and others, have made every excuse for these people and have neither censured them or condemned them or the statements they have made. Which seems to be some kind of endorsement of their anti-Semitism.)


July 19, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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July 19, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Italienische Flugstaffeln über Gibraltar.
(Italian squadrons over Gibraltar.)
2. Starke Erfolge unserer U-Boot- und Luftwaffe.
(Strong successes of our U-Boats and Luftwaffe.)


July 19, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Rote=Kreuz=Schiffe als Kriegssköder.
[Red Cross ships as war bait.]
[Another absurd assertion by the German propaganda machine.]
 
2. Churchill spekuliert auf die Humanität der Amerikaner - Massenflucht über den Atlantik?
(Churchill speculates on the humanity of the Americans. Mass exodus across the Atlantic?)
[In some places it was being reported that British children were not welcome in the United States, this was not true. In fact, the limit in the number of refugees that the U.S.A. would take was raised a few days before the the British made the decision to stop sending British children across the oceans.]



   
Page published July 19, 2021