World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday January 29, 1941
Day 517

January 29, 1941: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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Note the report in column 4: "H.M.S. Triton Overdue"
(The British submarine HMS Triton sailed from Malta on Nov. 28, 1940 and never returned. While the exact cause of the loss of the boat and the fifty-six man crew is unknown, it is possible that Triton was sunk by the Italian torpedo boat Confienza on or about Dec. 6th.)


January 29, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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January 29, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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January 29, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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January 29, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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January 29, 1941: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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January 29, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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January 29, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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January 29, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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January 29, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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January 29, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 4: "Lindbergh Is Reported Planning Congress Run"
 
Also note the report in column 3: "MItchell Field Quarantined By Outbreak of Measles"


January 29, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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January 29, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 5: "Shift In Nazi Invasion Plans Is Seen By Briton"


January 29, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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January 29, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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January 29, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Metaxas gestorben.
(Metaxas died.)
2. Raeders Feststellung Jede Englandhilfe zu spät!
(Raeder's statement: Any help for England is too late.)


January 29, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Großadmiral Dr. h.c. Raeder: Jede Hilfe für England kommt zu spät. Keine Macht der Erde kann Britanniens Verhängnis aufhalten.
(Grand Admiral Dr. h. c. Raeder: Any help for England comes too late. No power on earth can stop Britain's doom.)
2. Britischer 22,000=Tonner versenkt.
(British 22,000 tonner sunk.)
[The report claims that the Empress of Australia had been sunk, but it was a complete falsehood.)



   
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