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December 4, 1941: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England. |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in columns 5-6: "New Reprisals Threat To France After Attack On Nazi Officer" |
(General Otto von Stülpnagel, Military Commander of occupied France, sets curfews in Paris. After the war, Stülpnagel was arrested by the Allies for war crimes [he had executed over 100 French civilians,] but he committed suicide before he could be tried.) |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales. |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in columns 2-3: "Nazi Generals' Row With Dietrich" |
(I have no idea if this was accurate or not, but it is an interesting article.) |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Pocket Battleship May Have Accompanied Raider" |
(This report makes a declarative statement that "The raider Steiermark [actually Kormoran,] was accompanied by a German pocket battleship in some of her forays, and it is possible that Sydney was sunk by her." Kormoran was never in company with a pocket battleship, or any other battleship. The Allies, especially the press, referred to the German Panzerschiffe [armored ships or heavy cruisers] Admiral Graf Spee, Admiral Scheer and Deutschland [later renamed Lützow] as "pocket battleships." None of these ships sailed with the raiders. Whoever the writer was could not accept that a modern cruiser, like HMAS Sydney, could fall to a converted freighter, and therefore they suggest that there must have been a bigger ship involved. The report also states that the freighter Eurylochus was sunk by this "pocket battleship" which was not true, it was sunk by Kormoran.) |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the headline report: "Were Sydney's Men Machine-Gunned In Water?" |
(We know this was not the case, but to be fair, it was a fair question in 1941.) |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Colonel Knox Says: Two British Battleships at Singapore" |
(You would think that the Secretary of the Navy would consider announcing such information to the world, which included the enemy, was something better left unsaid.) |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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Note the photo at top: "First Photo On Sinking Of Ark Royal" |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of The Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Reuben James Toll Avenged" |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Kreis Teltow, Brandenburg, Germany. |
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1. Die Versenkung des Kreuzers Sidney eine Waffentat ohnegleichen. |
(The sinking of the cruiser Sidney was an unparalleled feat of arms.) |
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December 4, 1941: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Eine Seekriegstat ohne Beispiel - Australischer Kreuzer Sidney von Hilfskreuzer Cormoran versenkt. |
(An unprecedented act of naval warfare - Australian cruiser Sidney sunk by auxiliary cruiser Kormoran.) |
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Page published December 4, 2022 |