World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Saturday, December 2, 1939
Day 93

December 2, 1939: Front page of the Grimsby Evening Telegraph, Grimsby, England.
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Note the report in column 3" "Grimsby Trawler Sinks U-boat"
(Another thrilling, but false report.)


December 2, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "Another U-boat Sunk"
(Yet another false report.)


December 2, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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December 2, 1939: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 6: "Poles Executed By Gestapo"


December 2, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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December 2, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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December 2, 1939: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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December 2, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.)
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December 2, 1939: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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Note the headline: "Finns Down 19 Red Planes, Sunk Sub"
(I can not attest to the aircraft, but no Russian submarine, or any other Russian ship was sunk by the Finns.)


December 2, 1939: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana.
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December 2, 1939: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 1: "Japan Arouses United States"


December 2, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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December 2, 1939: Front page of The Lowell Sun, Lowell, Massachusetts.
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December 2, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Lebensmittel=Ladenschluß ab Montag wieder 19 Uhr!
(Groceries-shops close again Monday from 7 p.m.)
2. Warum keine größeren Kämpfe im Westen?
(Why no major fighting in the west?)
3. Die finnische Kabinettskrise beendet.
(The Finnish cabinet crisis has ended.)



   
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