World War II As It Happened A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation Monday, January 29, 1940 Day 151

January 29, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.

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Note the report in column 2: "Free Speech and British Liberty"

(A report that further emphasizes the danger of State control of speech.)

[For earlier reports see The Melbourne Herald report "Nazi Ban On Radio Tightened" and the Press and Journal article "Nazi Dread of Truth Through Radio" on Jan. 27, 1939.]

January 29, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.

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January 29, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.

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Note the report in column 4: "Says He Thrashed Hitler"

January 29, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.

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January 29, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

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Note the report at bottom : "Nazi Atrocities In Bohemia And Poland"

[The report is concluded here.]

January 29, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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January 29, 1940: Front page of The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.

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January 29, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

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January 29, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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January 29, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.

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January 29, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.

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Note the report in column 2: "Germany Admits Priests Executed"

(Another report about this from the Press and Journal can be seen below. A more detailed report can be seen in the Butte Montana Standard below.)

January 29, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.

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Note the report in column 8: "Nazis Drive At Catholics In Poland"

(The report is concluded here.)

January 29, 1940: Front page of The Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.

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Note the headline: "Nazis Reported Persecuting Polish Priests"

[The report is concluded here.]

Also note the report in column 3: "200 Burn To Death In Osaka Train Wreck"

January 29, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.

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January 29, 1940: Front page of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia.

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Note the report at the bottom of column 5: "Cat That Rescued Freezing Bird 'Tops' in Screwy News"

January 29, 1940: Installment #13 of "Four Years Against Hitler" from the Press and Journal.

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January 29, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Teltow, Germany.

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1. Der Siegeswille des Adolf Hitler-Reiches.

(The will of Hitler's Reich to win.)

January 29, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.

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1. 22 Bauten im Hamburger Westen unter Denkmalschutz.

(22 Buildings in west Hamburg under monument protection.)

2. Eisenbahnkatastrophe in Japan.

(Railway katostrophie in Japan.)

		Page published January 29, 2021