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Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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Note the report in columns 3-4: "Sent Children To Death" |
Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of the Evening Express, Liverpool, England. |
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Note the report in column 5: "An A.R.P. Dog" |
(The report claims that Lady, who is described as an A.R.P. [Air Raid Precautions] dog, accidentally disarmed a German bomb. You will have to judge for yourself if this was true or not.) |
Also note the report in column 6: "£5,000 For A Spitfire" |
(Mr. E. Ramsey Moodie and Mr. W. R. Glazebrook, donated the funds to spur further donations from the public.) |
Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Family Loses Five Children" |
(The report does not give the names of the children. They were: Leonard (5), Edward (8), Constance (9), Violet (10) and Augusta (13).) |
Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the headline: "Germans Deny Sinking Refugee Ship" and the report at top right: "Make Charge Of Tear Jerker - Call It A Scheme To Get United States Into War" |
(Another propaganda piece reminiscent of the Athenia incident.) |
Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Roosevelt Won't Serve 4 Years If Elected, Andersen Says" |
(The Minnesota Republican was right, but only because Roosevelt died before his term was finished.) |
Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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(Click below for part thirteen of "Our Country" a twenty-four part series, written by twenty-four different authors, describing what America means to them. Today's piece was written by Sophie Kerr.) |
Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Indiana. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Boiler Kid Is Papa of 8-Lb. Baby" |
(Fred B. Snite, Jr., better known as Boiler Kid or The Man in the Iron Lung, announces the birth of his daughter.) |
Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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Note the report in column 4: "King Reports Nazis Massed Along Channel" |
Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Londoner Sonntag mit 16 Luftalarmen! |
(16 Air raid alarms in London on Sunday.) |
2. Neuer Angriff der britischen Luftpiraten auf Reichsgebiet. |
(New attack on Reich territory by British air pirates.) |
Sept. 23, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Stolze Höchstleistung unserer U-Boote. |
(Proud top performance of our U-Boats.) |
2. 176.000 BRT. in 2 Tage versenkt. |
(176,000 GRT sunk in 2 days.) |
[Total British losses for the previous two days was 63,994 GRT.) |
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