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January 1, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Hull Men Survive U-boat Encounter" |
(The writer was apparently not informed by the authorities that the trawler, HMS Barbara Robertson, was not a fishing boat, but an armed minesweeper (some sources indicate it was an anti-submarine trawler.) The trawler was sunk by the same submarine, U-30, which hit the battleship, HMS Barham, with a torpedo later in the same day. The submarine commander, Fritz-Julius Lemp (who sank the first British ship lost in World War II, the Athenia) stopped a Swedish freighter less than an hour later and requested that the master pick up the survivors, but for unknown reasons he did not. They were picked up by a British destroyer about 12 hours later. |
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January 1, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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Note the report at top right: "Hitler Said To Have Cancer" |
(We all know that this turned out to be false.) |
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January 1, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report at top right: "Tacoma's Internment" |
(Tacoma would never be returned to the Germans and was scrapped in the 1960's.) |
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January 1, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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January 1, 1940: Front page of The Melbourne Argus, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. |
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Note the report at top left: "Hate Attack By Hitler, Britain And The Jews" |
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January 1, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Disastrous Forest Fire Kills 400 In Korea" |
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January 1, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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January 1, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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January 1, 1940: Front page of the San Antonio Express, San Antonio, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Jap Air Raiders Kill 200 Chinese" |
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January 1, 1940: Front page of The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah. |
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January 1, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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| (Take special note of the cartoon at top, I think the last frame expresses how we feel about this year.) |
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January 1, 1940: Installment #7 of "Hitler Speaks" from The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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January 1-2, 1940: Front page of the Baruther Anzeiger, Baruth, Germany. |
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1. Der Führer zum Kriegsjahr 1940.) |
(The Führer on the year of war 1940.) |
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Page published January 1, 2021 |