World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday March 4, 1941
Day 551

March 4, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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March 4, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "Prison for Future Black-out Breakers"
(A striking headline, but only an off the cuff remark by a frustrated magistrate.)
 
Also note the report in columns 5-7: "Bread Subsidy to Continue"


March 4, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "Donovan is Here Again"
(Wild Bill Donovan on the move again.)
Also note the report in column 6: "Newspapers to be Smaller"
(To reduce the need to import as much material, the government asked publishers to reduce the number of pages in newspapers.)


March 4, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 3: "Trawler Sunk"
(H. M. Trawler Ouse was sunk by a mine on Feb. 20, thirteen men were lost with the ship.)


March 4, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 4, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 4, 1941: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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Note the report in column 3: "Nazi Methods In Poland"
(9,000 Germans heading to Poland to take over property formerly owned by Poles, especially, Jews.)


March 4, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 4, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 4, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 8: "Rickenbacker Quieter, Improved"


March 4, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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March 4, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 5: "Donovan Sees King"
(Wild Bill Donovan given an audience with King George VI.)


March 4, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 4, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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March 4, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Planmäßig voran in Bulgarien.
(Bulgarian progress going according to plan.)
2. Lebhafte Tätigkeit der Luftwaffe.
(Lively activity of the Luftwaffe.)


March 4, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Nach dem Einmarsch der deutschen Truppen Die britischen Hetzer verlassen Bulgarien.
(After the German troops marched in, the British propagandists left Bulgaria.)



   
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