World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday November 4, 1940
Day 431

November 4, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report in column 5: "Laurentic, Patroclus Sunk Say Germans"
(The report also claims that the Casanare was also sunk and that the Windsor Castle was attacked by an aircraft and hit with a bomb. After all the known lies told by the Germans and Italians, I wonder what the people reading this report thought. Did they believe the bluster from the Germans, when so many times before the bluster proved to be lies? This time, however, the Germans were telling the truth. Laurentic and Patroclus, both auxiliary cruisers and the freighter Casanare were all sunk, and by the same U-boat. Kapitänleutnant Otto Kretschmer and his U-99 sank all three ships in an action somewhat reminiscent of Kapitänleutnant Otto Weddigen and his SMS U-9, which sank three British cruisers (HMS Hogue, HMS Aboukir and HMS Cressy) during the Great War. The liner Windsor Castle was hit by a bomb dropped by a Fw-200 Condor long range aircraft, but the bomb failed to explode and little damage was done to the ship.)
Also note the report at top right: "30 Dead in Rail Crash"


November 4, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report at top right: "Twenty Killed In Derailed West Country Express"


November 4, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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November 4, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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November 4, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "German Air Attacks Weakening - Eight Thousand Airmen Lost in 2433 Planes Destroyed Over Gt. Britain"
(In The Daily Mail of Nov. 4 the number of dead German airmen was 6,000.)


November 4, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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November 4, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Note the report in column 6: "Hitler's Bid to Influence U.S. Elections"
(A strange report considering that the left-wing media and the democrat party told the world that nobody had ever interfered with U.S. elections before the 2016 election.)


November 4, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 5: "24 Killed In O.C. Rail Accident"
(You will notice that this is the third figure given in one day for the number of people killed in the train crash.)


November 4, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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November 4, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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November 4, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 4: "Guam Typhoon Leaves $1,615,000 Damage to Property and Crops"


November 4, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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November 4, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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November 4, 1940: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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Note the cartoon. Can you imagine a cartoon, supporting Republicans, appearing on the front page of a newspaper today in ultra liberal Massachusetts?


November 4, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada.
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November 4, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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Note the endorsement at bottom left. Again I have to wonder if you would see an endorsement for the Republican candidate on the front page of a newspaper today in ultra liberal California?


November 4, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. U-Boot versenkte zwei Hilfskreuzer.
(U-boat sinks three auxiliary cruisers.)
(The headline is almost true, U-99 (Kretschmer) did sink two auxiliary cruisers and one armed merchantman, but Casanare was not an auxiliary cruiser.)
2. Aufschlußreiches Interview mit Exminister Bonnet.
(Revealing interview with ex Minister Bonnet.)
 
3. Morgen Präsidentenwahl im aufrüstenden Amerika.
(Tomorrow presidential election in arming America.)


November 4, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Pan-Britannien muß es sein!
(It has to be Pan-Britain!)
2. Englands Kriegziel Alleinherrschaft in Europa.
(England's war goal: Sole rule of Europe.)



   
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