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July 6, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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July 6, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the headline: "British Sink French Warship After Mediterranean Battle" |
(The report, which comes from the Germans, claims that the French destroyer Frondeur was in action with HM cruisers. I can find no information of a battle between any British warships and this destroyer. Frondeur was sunk on Nov. 8, 1942 by the U.S. Navy warships off Casablanca, Morocco. I can only assume that this report was German propaganda designed to stoke the flames between the French and British after what had happened at Mers-el-Kebir. The other ship mentioned, Rigault de Genouilly, A French patrol boat, was torpedoed and sunk by the submarine HMS Pandora on July 4th.) |
July 6, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Nazis Outraged The Sinking Of The Arandora Star" |
(The Germans outraged that the British would transport internees in a ship which could be sunk by a U-boat. Not that a U-boat would torpedo an unarmed passenger ship, which, presumably, would be carrying hundreds of people, who would probably die. Sadly this would not be the only instance of fratricide [a.k.a. friendly fire] in World War II. There were many examples on all sides of submarines, aircraft and warships sinking vessels of their own nation or vessels carrying prisoners of their own nation.) |
July 6, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column3: "Attacks On 5 U-boats" |
(While the Royal Air Force may have believed they sank five U-boats, in fact, none were sunk within the time frame given by the report. Only one U-boat was lost in the whole of June 1940, and it is still unknown exactly what caused the loss of this boat. Two U-boats were sunk on July 1st and the RAAF was involved in the sinking of one of them. However, for the rest of the month of July, no more U-boats would be lost to enemy action or any other cause.) |
Also note the report in column 4: "U.S.A. Will Take 15,000 Sea 'Vacs" |
(And they will all be sent by ship and exposed to the threat of German U-boats, just like the German and Italian internees in the Arandora Star.) |
July 6, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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July 6, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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July 6, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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July 6, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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July 6, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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July 6, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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July 6, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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July 6, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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July 6, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the headline: "Invasion Of Britain Due In 10 Days" |
(This headline may have been written on the strength of a report from July 4th.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "New Threat Spurs Search For Bomber" |
(A phone threat made to the British Pavilion at the New York World's Fair. A bomb had been planted their a few days before, when it detonated, two New York detective were killed.) |
[See "New York Radicals Rounded Up In Bomb Investigation" in the Biddeford Daily Journal of July 5, 1940.] |
Also note the report in column 2-3: "Strange Noises" |
(An unemployed electrician in Melrose Park, Illinois crushed his wife's head with a hammer and slashed her throat, shot his 7-year-old son to death and then shot himself. A 19-year-old son and two daughters were spared.) |
Also note the report in column 3: "Boy, 19, Kills His Brother And Sister" |
(The 19-year-old had killed before. In 1937 he killed another brother with an axe, he was out on parole for that crime when he committed this crime. This time he chose a hammer as his murder weapon. This and the report above are more examples of hammer violence, which seemed to be quite pervasive at the time.) |
Also note the report in column 2: "Friends Abet Youth's Suicide" |
(Maybe the headline should have been, "With Friends Like This...") |
July 6, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the headline and report in column 8: "Baton Rouge Bombing Plot Is Foiled" |
(Another bomb plot that has been forgotten by history.) |
July 6, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York. |
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July 6, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Gandhi Calls for Freedom for India" |
July 6, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Der Führer wieder in Berlin. |
(The Führer back in Berlin.) |
2. Mehrtägiger Deutschland-Besuch des Grafen Ciano. |
(Multi day visit to Germany by Count Ciano.) |
3. Der siegreiche Feldherr kehrt zurück. |
(The victorious General returns.) |
July 6, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Das Ende der "Entente Cordiale" |
(The end of he "Entende Cordiale.") |
2. Frankreich bricht diplomatische Beziehungen zu England ab. |
(France breaks diplomatic relations with England.) |
3. Die Antwort auf das Verbrechen von Oran. |
(The answer to the Oran crime.) |
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