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October 31, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Milk Cut For Some Of Us Next Week" |
Also note the report in column 4: "Ghost Voice Again" |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "German Warning to Polish Surfs" |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Jews Being Removed From Berlin" |
Also note the report in column 4: "Trials After War For Nazi Murderers" |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Nazis Reveal Raid Deaths" |
(According to the Germans, a total of 7,711 people had died in air raids on Germany over the last six months.) |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Huns Claim Six More Vessels Sunk" |
(U-Boats were always busy sinking ships in the Atlantic, so the Germans could almost always claim something like this, and if you count the losses the right way, you can say it was true. What was true was that the overall situation in the north Atlantic was far worse than the British admitted to the public. In recent days the Germans had sunk four merchant ships from convoy HG-75 and three from other convoys, but they claimed to have sunk 14. They also sank a destroyer, the famous HMS Cossack. Cossack, under the command of Captain Philip Vian, R.N., had rescued almost 300 British and Commonwealth prisoners, all of whom had been captured from ships sunk by the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee. One hundred and fifty-nine men went down with Cossack.) |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the headline report: "30 Trapped In Alberta Mine" |
(This is the second mine disaster in a week. The previous Monday an explosion at a mine in Daniel Boone, Kentucky killed fifteen men.) |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report at top left: "U.S. Destroyer Reuben James Sunk By Torpedo in Convoy Off Iceland; Fate of 120 on Board Unreported" |
(USS Reuben James DD-245 was the first U.S. Navy ship sunk by a direct attack by a German vessel in World War II. The ship was torpedoed by Kapitänleutnant Erich Topp and his U-552 while escorting convoy HX-156. In total, 115 men were lost in the ship.) |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the photo at bottom right which claims to be a ship of the same class as USS Reuben James. |
(The ship shown, USS Davis DD-65, was a Sampson class destroyer, while Reuben James was a Clemson class destroyer. The writer or editor had only to check a copy of Jane's Fighting Ships to confirm the class that Reuben James belonged to.) |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 7: "FDR Assailed By Lindbergh" |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of The Southern Jewish Weekly, Jacksonville, Florida. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Jews Fifth As Warmongers" |
(In a Gallup poll of Americans, Jews were ranked as the fifth most responsible group for creating a pro-war attitude in the USA. The poll was taken in response to Charles Lindbergh's accusation that Jews, the Roosevelt administration, and the British were equally responsible for attempting to get America into the war.) |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the photo in the report in columns 7-8: "Warship Torpedoed in Iceland Convoy" |
(The photo that was chosen to represent USS Reuben James was USS Edsall DD-219. Sadly, Edsall was also sunk during the war. It was attacked by Japanese warships and aircraft on Mar. 1, 1942 and sunk. Only six survivors were rescued by the Japanese, but they were all later executed.) |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Der Weg in die Krim nach dreitägigem Ringen erkämpft. |
(The way to the Crimea was won after three days of struggle.) |
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October 31, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Der Dollar soll die Welt regieren - Roosevelt erpreßt neue Stützpunkte. |
(The dollar should rule the world - Roosevelt's blackmail for new bases.) |
2. Liquidierung des britischen Weltreiches schreitetfort. |
(Liquidation of the British Empire continues.) |
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Page published October 31, 2022 |
