World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, October 7, 1939
Day 37

October 7, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the report in the center: "Coventry Black-Out Accidents"


October 7, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 1: :U-Boat Repaired In Mexican GUlf"
(This report may have been planted by the British Government to give the U.S. an excuse to help stop this ship from getting back to Germany. It was untrue as there were no German U-boats within 3,000 miles of the Gulf of Mexico.)
Also note the report in column 5: "Hikers' Hostel Now U-Boat Hotel"


October 7, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 2: "Finns Defy Soviet"


October 7, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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October 7, 1939: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column4: "Bremen Crew Reach Home Safely"
(This may have been the first true story about the passenger liner Bremen since the war began.)


October 7, 1939: Front page of The Melbourne Argus, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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Note Hitler's speech to the Reichstag in on the front page.


October 7, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 2: "Chinese Troops Take Pingkaing"


October 7, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.)
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October 7, 1939: Front page of the Wichita Daily Times, Wichita Falls, Texas.
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Note the report at top right: "G-Men Probe Sabotage On U.S. Battleship"


October 7, 1939: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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October 7, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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October 7, 1939: Front page of The Evening News, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.
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October 7, 1939: Front page of The Cumberland News, Cumberland, Maryland.
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Note the report at bottom right: "Communists Active in Big Federal Departments, Rep. Dies Announces"
Also note the report at bottom center: "Johann von Bernsdorff Dies in Geneva of Heart Attack , Aged 77"
(von Bernsdorff was the German Ambassador to the United States during the Great War.)


October 7, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Die Welt über die Führer-Rede: Europa am Scheidewege, England vor die Wahl gestellt.
(The world reacts to the Führer's speech: Europe at a crossroads, England faces a choice.)
2. Die Türkei muss sich entscheiden.
(Turkey must choose.)
3. Ein schwimmendes hospital. Besuch auf einem Lazarettschiff im Hamburger hafen.
(A floating hospital. A visit to a hospitalship in the Hamburg harbor.)



   
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