World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday December 10, 1940
Day 467

December 10, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report at top left: "Two German Spies Executed in London"
Also note the report in columns 2-3: "Nazis DO Listen to Careless Talk"
(And they read careless reports in the press as well.)
Also note the report in column 3: "New Bread Prices In a Few Days"


December 10, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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December 10, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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December 10, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 4: "Anti-Jewish Move"


December 10, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "21 Dead, 18 Hurt Aboard Saguenay" and "Saga Of Sea Is Told As Broken Destroyer Plows Way To Port"
(The reports tell of the Canadian destroyer, HMCS Saguenay, being torpedoed by a German U-boat. At the time there was no way for them to know that they had actually been torpedoed by an Italian submarine, the Argo.)


December 10, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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December 10, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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December 10, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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December 10, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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December 10, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Der Führer sprach zum Volk.
(The Führer spoke to the people.)
2. Weg zum Sieg - Gestaltung künftigen Friedens.
(Path to victory - Shaping the future.)


December 10, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Lodernde Feuermeere in London.
(Blazing seas of fire in London.)
2. Großangriff vom Abend bis zum Morgen - Rollende Einsätze sehr starker Verbände mit schwersten Bomben.
(Major attack from evening to morning - waves of strong units with the heaviest of bombs.)



   
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