World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday October 4, 1940
Day 400

October 4, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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October 4, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "New Medal for Nazi Navy"
(Großadmiral Erich Raeder announces the new badges for service in minesweepers and submarine-chasers.)


October 4, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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Note the report in column 6: "Italian Warship Destroyed"
(The unnamed destroyer was the Palestro.)


October 4, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 1: "Canadian Destroyer Sinks 6 U-Boats"
(If this were true, HMCS Restigouche, would be the most famous destroyer in history. The actual number of
U-Boats sunk by this ship was zero.)
Also note the report in column 6: "H.M. Yacht Sappho Lost"
(Some wreckage from the yacht was found in St. Austell's Bay in Cornwall, but the cause of the loss of the yacht and all thirty-two men who were in her has never been determined.)


October 4, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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October 4, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in columns 5-7: "H. G. Wells Sees Nazis Facing Suicide Mirage Leading to End in Muddled European Politics"
[The report is concluded here. Note on this page the report at top right "First Anti-Jew Move Made in Netherlands"]


October 4, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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(Click below for part twenty-three 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 Stewart Edward White.)


October 4, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Brainerd Daily Dispatch, Brainerd, Minnesota.
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October 4, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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October 4, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Führer und Duce am Brenner.
(Führer and Duce at the Brenner.)


October 4, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Der Fußtritt für Chamberlain.
(The kick for Chamberlain.)
2. Vom Kriegserklärer zum Sündenbock der Churchill=Pleite.
(From the declaration of war to Churchill's scapegoat - bankruptcy.)



   
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