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July 27, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "M.P. Asks About Lancastria News" |
(An M.P. trying to find out why the news about the loss of Lancastria was withheld from the public.) |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Raiders Concealed 6" Guns" |
(The German naval command took notice of this report and wrote the following in their war diary; "The British for the first time, have obtained exact statements from eye witnesses in regard to our auxiliary cruisers, in this case Ship 21." Ship 21 was the Hilfskreuzer Widder.) |
Also note the report in column 5: "Bomb on Hudson Ferry Boat Dud" |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Germans Claim New Type Of Silent U-Boat" |
(Another fairy tale spun by the Propaganda Ministry.) |
Also note the report in column 6: "Rationing Of Petrol On September 1" |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Petrol Rationing In Melting Pot - Nothing Will Be Done Till New BOard Considers Problem" |
(Note that in the Launceston paper above, they report that rationing will begin Sept. 1st.) |
Also note the report in columns 7-8: "American Embargo on Oils and Metal Brings Hint of Jap. Reprisals" |
(That was an understatement, it would eventually lead to war between the United States and Japan.) |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the photo at top right: "End Of A British Transport Is Pictured" |
(A German propaganda photo showing the sinking of the Orama. While the sinking ship is true, the guns that were drawn into the photo are false.) |
Also note the report t bottom left: "Ark Of Juneau Reaches Journey's End" |
(The Ark of Juneau and the Satko family completed a journey that they were told could not be done.) |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of the Wilmington Morning Star, Wilmington, North Carolina. |
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Note the headline and the report in column 8: "Congress Approaches Conscription Bill Battle" |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. U-Boote, Schnellboote und Luftwaffe erfolgreich. |
(U-Boats, S-Boats and the Luftwaffe successful) |
[This report is about the attack on convoy CW-8, which lost 8 ships out of 25 over a period of two days. Five the first day were sunk by German Ju-87 "Stuka" dive bombers and three were sunk on the 26th by the 1st S-Boot Flotilla, under the command of Oberleutnant zur See Bernd Klug.] |
2. Malta erneut von den Italienern bombardiert. |
(Malta bombed again by the Italians.) |
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July 27, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Geschlagen - gewürgt - bespien - beraubt. |
(Beaten - strangled - spat on - robbed.) |
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Page published July 27, 2021 |
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