World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday Sept. 7, 1940
Day 373

Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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Note the headline: "Anti-Jewish Rioting in Bucharest - Iron Guard Take Revenge"
Also note the report in column 4: "Jews Deprived Of French Nationality"
Also note the report in column 4: "Meat Ration Leaks To Be Stopped"


Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 1: "Three U.S. Destroyers In Canada"
Also note the report in columns 2-3: "Submarine Cheats Nazi Raider Of Prey"
(The Tropic Sea was stopped by the German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser) Orion on June 19th. When the Germans learned that the Norwegian ship was carrying food bound for England, the ship was taken as a prize. A prize crew was put aboard, along with 24 survivors of the SS Haxby, which Orion had sunk on Apr. 24. The ship was being sent to Bordeaux, France when it was intercepted by HMS Truant.)
Also note the report in columns 5-6: "Battle of London 45 Nazi Planes Sent To Doom'
(Announcement from the Air Ministry that 45 German and 19 British aircraft had been lost the previous day. Keeping the "Never Doubt" clause in mind, the Germans lost 22 aircraft in combat, 11 in non-combat incidents and 2 were reported as missing. R.A.F. Fighter Command lost 17 aircraft in combat, 3 in non-combat incidents and 1 was a total constructive loss due to battle damage.)
Also note the photo at center of the Bartolemeo Colleoni under attack by HMAS Sydney during the Battle of Cape Spada.


Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report at top center: "Scarpanto Shelled - Navy Raids Many Italian Bases - Only White Ensign On Mediterranean - H.M.A.S. Sydney Takes Part"
(The photo at top left is the cruiser HMS Orion, not to be confused with the German Hilfskreuzer Orion.)
Also note the report at bottom center: "American Journalist Finds No Important Air Raid Damage"
(A report by H. R. Knickerbocker about damage in England.)
Also note the report at bottom left: "Broadcast Appeal For Spitfire Fund"


Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 5: "Jewish Stores In Bath Are Attacked"
(Attacks against 5 Jewish-owned stores in Bath, Maine.)


Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Chicago Mob's Hold on Union Described in Death Statement"
(The corruption never ends with Unions, it's either communists or mobsters.)
Also note the report in column 4: "Father and Son Injured in Duel In California"
(As the late, great, Paul Harvey would say, "Here is a Strange.")


Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in columns 3-6: "Great Authors Write Series"
(Announcing a 4-week series about what America means to some of the greatest authors of the time.


Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 3: "Reich Denies Loss Of Ship"
(Germany officially denies that the troopship Marion was sunk by the British. This was completely true, because there was no troopship named Marion. The ship sunk was the Pionier, which the Germans, in this report, claim was only damaged.)
 
Also note the report in column 5: "Nazis Get Assassin Of German Diplomat"
(The Pétain government in Vichy, France, turned over Herschel Grynszpan to the Germans. Grynszpan had shot a Nazi diplomat named Ernst vom Rath in Paris on Nov. 7, 1934, he died two days later, on the anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich. This murder was used by Propaganda Minister Goebbels and the Nazis to attack the Jews, since Grynszpan was Jewish. On Nov. 9-10, 1934 the Sturmabteilung, along with many German citizens, conducted a pogrom against German Jewish citizens in what is now known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night or the Night of Broken Glass.) About 100 Jews were murdered, 30,000 were arrested and sent to concentration camps. 200 Synagogues were damaged, burned or destroyed along with hundreds of Jewish owned businesses. The real number of Jews who died is unknown, but it is a pretty good guess that after all was said and done, the number was well over 1,000.

Grynszpan would become one of them. After being taken from a French prison, he was taken to the infamous Gestapo headquarters on the Prinz-Albrecht-Strasse in Berlin. From there he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp and later to others, but for unclear reasons, he was never brought to trial. He was last known to be alive in late 1942, but his fate, like that of many others, is unknown to this day.)


Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "World-Famous Mind Reading Dog To Pay Visit to Lowell"
(Bozo the Mind Reading Dog was even featured on Ripley's Believe It or Not! in Dec. 1935. Bozo died in 1943.)


Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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Note the report in column 2: "Petain Gives Jew Assassin to Nazis"
(This is a slightly longer version of the above UP report about Herschel Grynszpan. Note however, the contemptible way the headline writer chose to cover the report.)


Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. London mit starken Kräften angegriffen.
(London attacked by strong forces.)


Sept. 7, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Großkampftag gegen England.
(Day of major battle against England.)
2. Schwere Kämpfe beiderseits der unteren Themse.
(Heavy fighting on both sides of the Lower Thames.)
3. Am Freitag wieder 62 Flugzeuge vernichtet.
(Another 62 aircraft destroyed on Friday.)
[R.A.F. Fighter Command losses for Friday Sept. 6 were 17 lost in combat, 3 lost in non-combat incidents and 1 total constructive loss.]



   
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