World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday, February 23, 1940
Day 176

February 23, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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February 23, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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February 23, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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February 23, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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February 23, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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February 23, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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February 23, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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February 23, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the photo at top left of HMS Eagle.
(HMS Eagle was sunk on Aug. 11, 1942 by U-73.)


February 23, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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Note the headline: "Reliefers Storm Capital"
(Where have we seen something like this recently? I wonder how many were arrested for domestic terrorism.)


February 23, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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February 23, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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February 23, 1940: Front page of The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Indiana.
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February 23, 1940: Report from the Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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(The "Loot of Lima" was reportedly found earlier in the year, but to this day has still not been found.)


February 23, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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February 23, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Polnischem Untermenschentum ausgeliefert.
(At the mercy of Polish subhumanity.)


February 23, 1940: Front page of the Briesetal-Bote, Birkenwerder, Germany.
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1. Martyrium der Volksdeutschen in Oberschlesien.
(Martyrdom of ethnic Germans in Upper Silesia.)



   
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