World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, August 2, 1941
Day 702

August 2, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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August 2, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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August 2, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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August 2, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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August 2, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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August 2, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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August 2, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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August 2, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Note the report in columns 4-5: "U.S. Consul General Says: Two German Liners Gutted By Saboteurs"
(Mr. Alfred Thomson, Consul General at Hamburg claims both Breman and Europa were destroyed by fires set by saboteurs. Bremen was destroyed, but Europa was not.)


August 2, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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August 2, 1941: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "18 New Cases in Past 24 Hours - Infantile Paralysis Total Is Now 224"
(The latest update on the current (2022) polio case in Rockland County, New York is that the polio virus has now been found in wastewater samples in Rockland County. There is also another report that claims that only 60% of people in that county have been vaccinated. However, I cannot attest to the veracity of that report.)


August 2, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the headline report: "Silk, Hosiery Mills Will Close Tonight"
(The US Govt. bans the use of silk in private industry to save the supply for the military. The British did this back in October of 1940.)


August 2, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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August 2, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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August 2, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the report in column 3: "Jews Ousted"
(Hungarian officials announce the expulsion of 12,000 Jews, mostly Russian and Polish Jews.)


August 2, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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August 2, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany.
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1. Ostfront-Kämpfe unverändert günstig.
(Favorability unchanged in battles on the eastern front.)


August 2, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Britischer Luftüberfall auf Petsamo - Churchills Antwort auf den Abbruch der finnischen Beziehungen zu London.
(British air raid on Petsamo - Churchill's response to the severing of Finnish relations with London.)
2. Keine Atempause für England.
(No respite for England.)



   
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