World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday May 30, 1940
Day 273

May 30, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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May 30, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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May 30, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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May 30, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 3: "Soviet Accuses Lithuania"


May 30, 1940: Front page of The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
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May 30, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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May 30, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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May 30, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 1: "Teacher Fired: Admires Hitler"
(This is the second teacher in Canada that I know of who had their teaching certificate suspended or revoked due to pro-Nazi positions.)


May 30, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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May 30, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York.
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May 30, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee.
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May 30, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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May 30, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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May 30, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Groß-Luftangriff auf abziehende Briten.
(Large air attack against retreating British.)
2. 3 Kriegsschiffe und 16 Transporter versenkt!
(3 Warships and 16 transports sunk!)


May 30, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Sadistische Mordhetze in Frankreich.
(Sadistic incitement to murder in France.)
2. Vor der Vernichtung der Eingekreisten.
(Before the extermination of those encircled.)



   
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