World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday October 11, 1940
Day 407

October 11, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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October 11, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 8: "Gestapo Fomenting Insurrection in France"


October 11, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report in column 5: "Nazi Terror In Poland Reigns"


October 11, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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October 11, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 5: "Submarine Hunted"
(The unnamed submarine was Gondar, which was sunk by HMAS Stuart and a Sunderland flying boat from 230 Squadron RAF on Sept. 30th.)


October 11, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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October 11, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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October 11, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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October 11, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 8: "Germans Order New Norse Purge"


October 11, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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October 11, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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October 11, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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October 11, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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October 11, 1940: Front page of The Helena INdependent, Helena, Montana.
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Note the report in column 3: "Bund Leader Kunze Indicted On Charge Of Inciting Hatred"
(Things have sure changed in this country. Today, the left not only incites hate, they teach it to our children in school, they commit acts of violence against their political or racial opponents. They burn, loot and destroy and little or nothing is done by the democrat leaders in the states that these crimes occur in.)


October 11, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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October 11, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Der neue verbrecherische Angriff auf der Hamburger Zivilbevölkerung. 3 Tote, Schwer=und viele Leichtverletzte.
(The new criminal attack on Hamburg's civilian population. 3 dead, many injured severely others slightly.)


October 11, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Umfangreiche Zerstörungen im Londoner Stadtkern.
(Extensive damage i central London.)



   
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