World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday October 14, 1940
Day 410

October 14, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "18 Die As Plague Hits Manchuria"


October 14, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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October 14, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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October 14, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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October 14, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 4: "Italy Claims Sinking Cruiser"
(Another easily proven lie from the Italian propaganda machine.)
Also note the report in column 7: "Graf Spee Men Arrested On Way To Japan"


October 14, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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October 14, 1940: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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October 14, 1940: Front page of The Gazette, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Note the headline: "3,000 Nazis Killed As Two Ships Bombed"
(The report states that two ships were bombed and sunk at Lorient, France. I have no information that leads me to believe that this is true.)


October 14, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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October 14, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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October 14, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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October 14, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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October 14, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the photo at center: "Giant Red Bird Hit Of Parade"
(The aircraft, identified as the L-760, was the ANT-20, known as Maxim Gorky. Only 2 were ever built, and both crashed. The first one crashed May 18, 1935, the one in the photo, if this is a photo of the second plane, crashed Dec. 14, 1940.)


October 14, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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October 14, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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October 14, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Londons Schäden unberechenbar.
(London's damage is unpredictable.)
2. Jeden Tag "eine andere Stadt"
(Every day a different city.)


October 14, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Schirach über die Stellung Wiens.
(Schirach on the position of Vienna.)
2. Kein Museum der Vergangenheit, sondern große lebenerfüllte Zukunft.
(Not a museum of the past, but a great, life-filled future.)



   
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