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November 28, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in columns 4-6: "No Altmark Life for Them!" |
(Report about a ship that was not caught by the German cruiser Admiral Scheer.) |
Also note the report in columns 3-4: "500 Paris Students In Nazi Concentration Camp" |
(French students involved in a riot arrested and sent to concentration camps.) |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Sea Raider In Indian Ocean" |
(The two ships mentioned, Port Brisbane and Maimoa, were both sunk by the German Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] Pinguin.) |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Sank Destroyer And Captured Cruiser" |
(Report claims that HMAS Australia sank the destroyer French Audacieux (Really L'Audacieux) and captured the French cruiser Gloire. L'Audacieux was badly damaged by HMAS Australia on Sept. 23, but went aground and was refloated and repaired. Sunk while in drydock at Bizetre, French Tunisia by Allied aircraft on May 7, 1943 and scrapped in 1947. The cruiser Gloire was captured, without a fight, by HMAS Australia and HMS Cumberland on Sept. 18, 1940.) |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "Danes Say Nazis Will Use Jutland as Springboard for Invasion of England" |
(Another absurd report about the invasion that never would be.) |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Yacht Log Bares Hunger Death of 3" |
(Details of the sad story of the yacht Wing On.) |
| [See "Yacht Survivor Under Treatment" in the Nevada State Journal of Dec. 1, 1940.] |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Die ganze vergangene Nacht Luftangriffe auf London und "eine Stadt im Südwesten. |
(Air raids last night against London and a city in the southwest.) |
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November 28, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Britische Schiffsverluste verdreifacht. |
(British shipping losses tripled.) |
2. London schreit nach dem USA.=Gold. |
(London cries out for Gold from USA.) |
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Page published November 28, 2021 |
