World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday October 1, 1940
Day 397

October 1, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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Note the report in column 1: "49 Raiders Lost Yesterday"
(Keeping the "Never Doubt" clause in mind; the Germans lost 41 aircraft on Sept. 30th, and the R.A.F. lost 14, with 3 more being total constructive losses.)
Also note the report in columns 4-5: "Smoking In Black-Out"


October 1, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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October 1, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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October 1, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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October 1, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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October 1, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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October 1, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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October 1, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 7: "A.P. Estimate Of Raid Deaths In London Is 5,000"
Also note the report in column 8: "Italian Subs Torpedo Three Spanish Vessels"
(The Italians had made an error, because Spain was a neutral country. One of the ships, Monte Moncayo, was sunk by a mine.)


October 1, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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October 1, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in columns 7-8: "Albert einstein Admitted To American Citizenship"


October 1, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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October 1, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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(Click below for part twenty 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 James Truslow Adams.)


October 1, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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October 1, 1940: Front page of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia.
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October 1, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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October 1, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Gute Abschußerfolge deutsches Nachtjäger.
(Good shooting results by German night fighters.)
2. Militär für Aufräumungsarbeiten herangezogen.
(Military called for cleanup work.)


October 1, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Londons Querschüsse gegen den Dreierpakt wirkungslos.
(London's cross shots against the tripartite pact have no effect.)
2. Sowjetrussische Stellungnahme straft England Lügen.
(Soviet opinion belies England.)



   
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