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December 20, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Japan Denies Germs from Planes Story" |
(The Japanese did drop infected fleas on China on Oct. 27, 1940. The fleas were infected with cholera and the bubonic plague. At least one other attack was made in 1942. There may have been more, but much of the documentation of these attacks was destroyed by the Japanese just before the end of the war. Others were held in classified status by the USA. The full extent of Japan's biological warfare in WWII is not known, but as many as 250,000 people died from testing and the attacks. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Merchant SHip Sunk By Nazis" |
(Two of the ships mentioned, Amicus was sunk by the Italian submarine Alpino Bagnolini and Macedonier by U-96.) |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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Note the report in column 5: "2 More Ships Report Submarine Attack Off Irish Coast" |
(Of the two ships mentioned in this report; Carlton was sunk by RIN Sub Pietro Calvi. Varangberg may have been attacked, but was not sunk. She was sunk Sept. 26, 1941 by U-203.) |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of The Southern Jewish Weekly, Jacksonville, Florida. |
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Note the headline: "30,000 Jews Held in 43 Labor Camps" |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Weitere Unterhaltsverbesserungen bei Entlassungen aus dem Wehrdienst. |
(Further maintenance improvements in the event of dismissals from military service.) |
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December 20, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Todesurteil an einen Schieber vollstreckt. |
(Execution of the death sentence on a criminal.) |
2. Böswillig die Versorgung des deutschen Volks gefährdet. |
(The supply of the German people is maliciously endangered.) |
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Page published December 20, 2021 |
