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October 5, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Four Graf Spee Men Arrested" |
Also note the report in column 5: "Cary's Grant" |
(Actor Cary Grant donates $62,500 (£13,000) to the Red Cross for the relief of Britons.) |
October 5, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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October 5, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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October 5, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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October 5, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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October 5, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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October 5, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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October 5, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Claim Story Is Unlikely" |
(A report refuting the claim by children that they saw the crew of Volendam being rescued. See "Refugee Children Tell Of Seeing Volendam Crew Rescued" in The Evening Star below.) |
October 5, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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October 5, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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October 5, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Refugee Children Tell Of Seeing Volendam Crew Rescued" |
October 5, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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(Click below for part twenty-four 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 Katharine Brush.) |
October 5, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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October 5, 1940: Front page of The Tacoma Times, Tacoma, Washington. |
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October 5, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Erfolge trotz besonders ungünstiger Witterung. |
(Success in spite of bad weather.) |
2. Opposition in U-Bahn Schächten. |
(Opposition in subway shafts.) |
October 5, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Dreistündige Unterredung am Brenner. |
(Three-hour conversation at the Brenner.) |
2. Dritte Begegnung Hitler-Mussolini seit Kriegsausbruch. |
(Third meeting between Hitler and Mussolini since the beginning of the war.) |
Page published October 5, 2021 |