World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, January 20, 1940
Day 142

January 20, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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Note the report in column 1: "Uruguay Sacks Doctor For Spee Charge"


January 20, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the photo at bottom right of HMS Courageous.
[More about HMS Courageous here.]


January 20, 1940: Front page of the Evening Express, Liverpool, England.
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Note the report in column 2: "Explosion In Milky Way"


January 20, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 4: "R.A.F. Sink Another U-boat"
(In fact no U-boats had been sunk so far in Jan. of 1940.)
Also note the report in column 5: "Still Another Nazi Lie"
[More about Admiral Graf Spee here.]


January 20, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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January 20, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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January 20, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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January 20, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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January 20, 1940: Front page of The Escanaba Daily Press, Escanaba, Michigan.
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Note the report in column 7: "German Raider Is Slave Ship"


January 20, 1940: Front page of The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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Note the report at bottom right: "Drug Hailed as Life Saver In State's Pneumonia Fight"
[More about Sulfrapyradine here.] (Wikipedia)


January 20, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 4: "Poll Taxes Lag"


January 20, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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January 20, 1940: Installment #6 of "Four Years Against Hitler" from the Press and Journal.
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January 20, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Das feindliche Kriegsziel-Zerstückelung!
(The enemies war goal - dismemberment!)
2. Engländer und Franzosen wollen die Einheit des deutschen Volkes vernichten und das Großdeutsche Reich in Stücke schlagen.
(The English and the French want to destroy the unity of the German people and smash the Greater German Reich to pieces.)


January 20, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Sühne für Flottbeker Billeneinbrüche.
(Atonement for Flottbeker bill burglaries.)
2. Das Geheimnis der Strandungen.
(The secret of strandings.)



   
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