World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, March 9, 1940
Day 191

March 9, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "Magnetic South Pole Is Shifting"


March 9, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 1: "Docks Nearly as Dangerous as Roads in Black-out"


March 9, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "300,000 Men Register"


March 9, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 2: "Hunt For Mystery Radio in England"


March 9, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 9, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 9, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 9, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report at bottom left: "Fable With A Moral - Story of An Aunt Who Talked"
(If only other members of the press had read this before they wrote stories about anti-mine equipment installed on British ships perhaps fewer people would have lost their lives.)


March 9, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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March 9, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 9, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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March 9, 1940: Front page of the Dunkirk Evening Observer, Dunkirk, New York.
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March 9, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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March 9, 1940: Installment #6 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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March 9, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Ewiges deutsches Heldentum. Das deutsche Volk steht am 10. März in soldatischer Gesinnung vor seinen Helden.
(Eternal German heroism. On March 10th the German people stand before their heroes with the spirit of a soldier.)


March 9, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Morgen spricht der Führer.
(The Führer speaks tomorrow.)
2. Fühlungnahme Rußland-Finnland.
(Keeping contact between Russia and Finland.)
3. Ribbentrop nach Rom abgereist.
(Ribbentrop departed for Rome.)



   
Page published March 9, 2021