World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Friday, January 16, 1942
Day 869

January 16, 1942: Front page of the News and Chronicle, London, England.
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Historical note: On this day the Nazis began the deportation of Jews from the Lodz ghetto to the Chelmno death camp. By the time the camp closed, more than 170,000 people had been murdered by the Nazis.


January 16, 1942: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 8: "Jews Penalised"
(A report from Stockholm, quoting the Berlin correspondent of the Social Demokraten states that Jews in Germany are to surrender furs, woolen clothes, underwear, ski boots and skiing equipment. Jews about to be deported to eastern areas were exempt. This was of course, because when they arrived in the east, they were killed and the clothing was stolen from them.)


January 16, 1942: Front page of The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England.
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January 16, 1942: Front page of the Western Mail and South Wales News, Cardiff, Wales.
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Note the report in column 5: "Lindbergh Not for Air Corps"


January 16, 1942: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 5: "Nazi Brutality In Hell Camp"


January 16, 1942: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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January 16, 1942: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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January 16, 1942: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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January 16, 1942: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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January 16, 1942: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the photo in columns 5-6: "Victoria's Soldier Son - Connaught Dies" and the report in column 5: "Long Career Ends Near Close Of 92nd Year"
(The last living son of Queen Victoria and the former Governor-General of Canada, H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught, K.G. has passed away.)


January 16, 1942: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "Radio Censorship Plan To Ban Request, Quiz Shows - Order Aimed Against Sending Of Messages By Axis Spies"
[The report is concluded here.]
Also note the report in column 4: "Laura Ingalls Pleads Innocent To FBI Charge"
(Laura Ingalls, not to be confused with the author Laura Ingalls Wilder of Little House on the Prairie fame, was a famous aviatrix and Nazi agent operating with the Gestapo in the U.S.A. She infiltrated the America First Committee, of which Charles Lindbergh was a member, and gave several pro Nazi, anti-intervention speeches for the committee. She was arrested in Dec. 1941 for failing to register as a paid foreign agent and served 20 months in prison. After being released she continued to spread pro-Nazi propaganda being arrested again in in July of 1944 while trying to enter Mexico carrying seditious material. She was not prosecuted in this event. She died in 1967.)


January 16, 1942: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 1: "U.S. Navy Sinks 3 Jap Transports And 2 Big Cargo Ships in Pacific"
(The claim is that the U.S. Navy has sunk a total of 24 warships and merchantmen since the beginning of the war. Including a 17,000-ton passenger ship. None of the claims were true. A post-war assessment shows that the Japanese lost 14 warships [including submarines] and 19 merchantmen from Dec. 7, 1941 to Jan. 12, 1942. United States forces were responsible for sinking only thirteen of these ships. The claim made by the Navy about sinking a 17,000-ton passenger ship was also untrue. To date the largest Japanese ship sunk was the 9,849-ton Katori Maru, which was sunk by the Dutch submarine HNLMS K-XIV on Dec. 23, 1941.)


January 16, 1942: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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January 16, 1942: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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January 16, 1942: Front page of the Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona.
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January 16, 1942: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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January 16, 1942: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Küstenstadt Malakka gefallen.
(Coastal city of Malacca has fallen.)
2. Japanische Tanktruppen im Vorfeld von Singapur.
(Japanese tanks and troops on the approach to Singapore.)
3. 30,000 britische Soldaten in Südmalaya umzingelt.
(30,000 British soldiers surrounded in southern Malaya.)



   
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