World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday March 31, 1941
Day 578

March 31, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the headline report: "Warspite, Barham, Valiant Shattered Italian Battle Fleet"
(The report is about the Battle of Cape Matapan.)
[More about HMS Valiant here.]


March 31, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note installment number 7 of "Both Sides of the War" a multi-part series by United Press reporters Joe Alex Morris and Lyle C. Wilson.
[The report is concluded here.]


March 31, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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March 31, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Wachsender Terror in Jugoslawien.
(Growing terror in Yugoslavia.)
2. Erste Begrüßung Matsuokas in Italien.
(Matsuoka's first welcome in Italy.)


March 31, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Seid würdig des größten Deutschen aller Zeiten!
( Be worthy of the greatest German of all time!)



   
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