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October 17, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Ajax Sinks Italian Destroyers" |
(In the battle, two Italian torpedo boats, Ariel and Airone were sunk outright and the destroyer, Artigliere, was taken in tow by another Italian warship, but was put adrift when other British warships approached. Artigliere surrendered to HMS York, but scuttled before the British could take control of the ship.) |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, West Virginia. |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Lindy is Appeaser Col. Johnson Says" |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Anti-Jewish Law Pushed" |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Wachsendes Chaos in London. |
(Increasing chaos in London.) |
2. Früchte der Wahnsinnspolitik. |
(Fruits of mad politics.) |
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October 17, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. OKW. meldet wesentliche Verstärkung der Vergeltungsangriffe. |
(OKW reports a large increase in retaliatory attacks.) |
[OKW= Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, translation, High Command of the Armed Forces.] |
Note the photo at bottom center: "Bauern und Landarbeiter beim Führer" |
(Farmers and farm workers wit the Führer.) |
Note the report at bottom right: " Stolzer Erfolg eines italiensche U-Bootes - Britisches U-Boot nach hartem Kampf versenkt" |
(Proud success of an Italian submarine - British submarine sunk in hard fight.) |
[The report states that the Italian submarine Toti [actually Enrico Toti] sank a submarine of the Perseus class. The submarine sunk was HMS Triad, which was sunk in a surface gunfight with the Italian boat.] |
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Page published October 17, 2021 |