World War II As It Happened A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation Sunday Sept. 15, 1940 Day 381

Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of The People, London, England.

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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Astrologer Predicts Italian Rout"

(You didn't need to be a prophet to predict the Italians would lose to the British, just a historian.)

Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of the Sunday Pictorial, London, England.

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Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Mail, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C.

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Note the report in column 8: "Conscription Passed, Providing 900,000 Yearly for Training"

[The report is concluded here.]

[Full text of the conscription law.]

[Full text concluded.]

Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia.

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Note the report in column 8: "Attack on Isle Believed Due In Day or Two"

[The report is concluded here.]

(Another report about the invasion that never was.)

[See "July 9 Is New Blitzkrieg Date" in the Manchester Evening News of July 4, 1940.]

Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.

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Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan.

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Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana.

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Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.

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Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of The Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

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Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.

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Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.

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Sept. 15, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.

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1. In der Nacht zum Samstag 8½ Stunden im Keller.

(8 Hours in the shelters on Saturday night.)

2. 79. Luftalarm in London.

(79 Air alarms in London.)

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