World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday January 2, 1941
Day 490

January 2, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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January 2, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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January 2, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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January 2, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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January 2, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 6-7: "Minister Warns British Public To Eat Less in 1941"


January 2, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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January 2, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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January 2, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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January 2, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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January 2, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 2: "Britons' Right to Buy Two Weeks' Supply Of Meat Cancelled"


January 2, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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January 2, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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January 2, 1941: Front page of The Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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January 2, 1941: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Note the report in column 2: "Von Luckner - British Report Famous Master Raids Again"
(On the word of a Norwegian survivor, the world's press reports that Count Felix von Luckner, the infamous commanding officer of SMS Seeadler, a German Hilfskreuzer [auxiliary cruiser] in the Great War, was at sea in one of the Hilfskreuzer currently operating in the Pacific. The truth was, that he was living in Sweden and had fallen out with the Nazi government.)


January 2, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Neuer Erpressungsversuch an Irland.
(New extortion attempt on Ireland.)


January 2, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Düstere Neujahrsbotschaft für London.
(Gloomy New Year's message for London.)



   
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