World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Wednesday December 4, 1940
Day 461

December 4, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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December 4, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the photo in column 1 of Mary James, who had been arrested by the Gestapo. Earlier reports give her name as May James.


December 4, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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December 4, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "U-Boat Sunk In Its Own Back Yard"
(I can find no U-boat attack that fits this description.)


December 4, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the photo at top left: "Probably A Familiar Sight On Mediterranean"
(HMS Ark Royal with a flight of Swordfish aircraft.)


December 4, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report in column 4: "Mystery Of Pearl Lugger"


December 4, 1940: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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December 4, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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December 4, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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December 4, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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December 4, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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December 4, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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December 4, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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December 4, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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Note the report in column 2: "Jap Paper Hints At War With U.S."


December 4, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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December 4, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Gründung des größten Immun-Biologischen Forschungsinstituts der Welt.
(Founding of the largest immunobiological research institute in the world.)
2. Bilanz der 23 Großangriffe im November.
(Record of the 23 major attacks in November.)


December 4, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. 21 Dampfer an einem Tage versenkt.
(21 Steamships sunk in one day.)



   
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