World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, October 3, 1939
Day 33

October 3, 1939: Front page of The Leeds Mercury, Leeda, England.
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Note the report in column 6: "Ark Royal Safe At Station"


October 3, 1939: Front page of the Daily Herald, London, England.
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Note the report in column 2: "Defied U-Boat"
(This report is also in the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung seen below.)


October 3, 1939: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derbyshire, England.
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Note the report in column 4: "Germany Sends Warning Note To U.S.A."


October 3, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 5: "Japans View Of Soviet-Nazi Pact"


October 3, 1939: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
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Note the report at bottom center: "Ark Royal Still Afloat"
(This was in response to the German reports that they had sunk the carrier.)


October 3, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Note the report at top right: "Pocket Ship As Raider"
(First reports of the Admiralty coming to the conclusion that a German cruiser was operating in the South Atlantic. The photo shows the German cruiser Deutschland, however the ship was in reality the cruiser Admiral Graf Spee.)
Also note the report in column 5: "Soviet Grip On Lithuania"


October 3, 1939: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report in column 5: "Hitler Support Of Jews Rumored"
(A fairy tale if ever there was one.)


October 3, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.)
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October 3, 1939: Front page of CZAS Polish Times, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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October 3, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report in column 4: "Gestapo Bares Plot"
(A reported plot against Hitler.)


October 3, 1939: Front page of the Ironwood Daily Globe, Ironwood, Michigan.
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Note the story in column 6: "Former Pal of Hitler Held"
(Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl was one of Hitler's closest associates during the rise of the NSDAP, and it was Hitler who gave him the nickname Putzi. After falling into disfavor with Hitler and the Nazi Party, he fled Nazi Germany in 1937. He was jailed in England, transferred to Canada and later sent to the U.S.A. where assisted the Roosevelt Administration and the Office Of Strategic Services (OSS.) He was sent back to Germany after the war and died in Munich in 1975.)


October 3, 1939: Front page of The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Indiana.
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October 3, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Bergwerksunglünd in Mexiko.
(Mine disaster in Mexico.)
[This report can be found in the Oct. 2, 1939 edition of the El Paso Herald-Post column 3.]
2. Tage schwerer Entscheidungen.
(Difficult decision in coming days.)
4. Graf Ciano berichtet dem Duce.
(Count Ciano reports to Duce.)
5. Dänischer Dampfer greift an.
(Danish steamship attacks.)



   
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