World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday August 3, 1940
Day 338

August 3, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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August 3, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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August 3, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report in column 4: "Clearance Of Attics"


August 3, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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August 3, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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August 3, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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August 3, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Note the photo at top right: "A Heinkel Bomber"
(The photo is actually of a Heinkel He-116, a long range mail aircraft, not a bomber.)


August 3, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in columns 7-8: "Register Your Gun With R.C.M.P. Before Sept. 15"


August 3, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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August 3, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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August 3, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the photo at top center: "American Skipper and Ship Carrying the Windsors"
(The caption says "Responsibility for safe passage" belongs to this man, Captain S. Norman Groves. However, the press seems to be doing all it can to get his ship torpedoed by printing every detail of the voyage on front pages around the world, every day.)
Also note the report in column 8: "First Electric Chair Death Was Horrible"
Also note the photo at bottom center: "Tommy-Gun for British Tommies"
(Photo showing Prime Minister Winston Churchill holding a Thompson Sub-Machine Gun. The Nazi Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, would use this photo to brand Churchill a gangster."


August 3, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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August 3, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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August 3, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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August 3, 1940: Front page of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph, Bluefield, West Virginia.
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Note the report in column 2: "Jews Are Denied Phone Service"
(The headline was just one of the new restrictions the Nazis put on Jews. Jewish hospitals were not allowed to paint a red cross on the roof, in the hopes that a British bomber would hit it and kill the occupants. There were also new restrictions on the amount of clothing a Jewish male could take out of the country. More evidence that the world knew what was happening to the Jews.)
Also note the report at bottom right: "Virginia Slayer Of Family Draws Life In Prison"
(Charles Sanderlin sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife and three children.)


August 3, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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August 3, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Alle New Yorker Abendblätter melden: Hamburg durch Luftangriffe "Pulverisiert"!
(All New York papers reporting: Hamburg "pulverized" by air attacks!)
[Propaganda Minister Goebbels taking advantage of the overstated British reports of the damage done to Hamburg during British air raids.]


August 3, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Auf 2 U-Boot=Fahrten 74.000 B.R.T. versenkt.
(74,000 GRT sunk on two trips by U-boat.)
2. Erfolg eines deutschen Hilfskreuzers im Atlantik.
(Success of a German auxiliary cruiser in the Atlantic.)
[The German report on the battle between HMS Alcantara and Thor]
 
3. Acht angreifende Briten-Flugzeuge abgeschossen.
(Eight attacking British aircraft shot down.)
4. Mörderbomben auf die Umgebung von Köln.
(Murder bombing of the area around Köln.)



   
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