World War II As It Happened A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation Wednesday, January 31, 1940 Day 153

January 31, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.

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Note the headline: "How Nazis Persecute Poles"

(This report in continued on the next two pages.)

[Read page 2 here.]

[Read page 3 here.]

(Nobody can say the world did not know.)

January 31, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.

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January 31, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.

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January 31, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.

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January 31, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.

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January 31, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

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Note the report in column 3: "Hitler Thinks Humans Are Cattle"

January 31, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Note the report in column 5: "Priests Executed"

(The Australians now getting the report from Jan. 29th.)

[See The Bakersfield Californian for Jan. 29, 1940.)

January 31, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.

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January 31, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

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January 31, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.

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January 31, 1940: Front page of the El Paso Herald-Post, El Paso, Texas.

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Note the photos at bottom: "Death At Sea--Exclusive Pictures Of German Raider Sinking Ships"

(Photos show the German cruiser Admiral Graf Spee sinking the British ships SS Ashlea and SS Doric Star. It is worth pointing out that no crew members were killed in these sinkings, contrary to the headline.)

[More about Ashlea here.]

[More abut Doric Star here.]

[More about Admiral Graf Spee here.]

January 31, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.

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January 31, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.

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January 31, 1940: Installment #15 of "Four Years Against Hitler" from the Press and Journal.

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January 31, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Teltow, Germany.

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1. Deutschland wird siegen!

(Germany will win!)

2. Adolf Hitler sprach vom Berliner Sportpalast zum deutschen Volk und der ganzen Welt.

(Adolf Hitler spoke to the German people and the world from the Berlin Sportpalast.)

January 31, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.

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1. Wieder neun Schiffsversenkungen.

(Another nine ships sunk.)

2. Im Bann des Hitlerworts.

(Under the spell of Hitler's words.)

3. Keine Verständigung ohne Sieg des Rechts.

(No understand without victory for the law.)

		Page published January 31, 2021