World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday March 8, 1941
Day 555

March 8, 1941: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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Note the report in column 4: "America Has First Black-out"
(John Kelly, Mayor of Seattle, ordered all light in the city to be extinguished.)
Also note the report in column 6: "Jewish Girls Made To Clean Streets"
(A unidentified neutral correspondent so reports, but the writer failed to identify the location of the report.)
Also note the report in column 7: "Col. Donovan in Dublin"
(Wild Bill Donovan is everywhere.)


March 8, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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March 8, 1941: Front page of the Birmingham Gazette, Birmingham, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "Destroyer Dainty Sunk"
(The ship was sunk by German Ju-88's at Tobruk, Libya. Sixteen men were lost with the ship.)


March 8, 1941: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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March 8, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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March 8, 1941: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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March 8, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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March 8, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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March 8, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 8: "789 British Civilians Killed"
(This was the figure for February 1941 released by the Ministry of Air and Home Security. Of that number, 91 were children under 16. 383 were men and 312 women killed, 1,068 injured.


March 8, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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March 8, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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Note the report in column 8: "Will Repeal Old Blue Laws"
(Delaware Governor, Walter W. Bacon will sign a bill repealing the 200-year-old blue laws, which will forestall recurrence of the arrests of more than 500 people last Sunday.)


March 8, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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March 8, 1941: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York.
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Note the report in column 3: "Germany Lifts Martial Law in Holland Provence"


March 8, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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Note the report at bottom right: "Times Dynamiter Dies"
(A union "leader" [terrorist,] James McNamara, who set off a bomb at the Los Angeles Times building in 1910, which killed 20 people, finally dies in prison.)


March 8, 1941: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Schwere Schläge auf Geleitzüge.
(Heavy blows to convoys.)


March 8, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Ein Amerikaner über Englands Friedensziele - Britiasche Polizeiaufsicht über Deutschland!
(An American on England's Peace Aims - British police supervision over Germany!))
2. Ein Zeichen beispielloser Verkennung der englischen Lage.
(A sign of unprecedented misjudgment of the English situation.)



   
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