World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday, December 28, 1939
Day 119

December 28, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the headline at top right: "Sugar and Meat to be Rationed"


December 28, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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December 28, 1939: Front page of the Grimsby Daily Telegraph, Grimsby, England.
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December 28, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the headline at top left: "Meat Rationing January 15"
Also note the report in column 6: "Sirocco's Third U-boat"
(In reality no U-boats had been sunk by French forces to date.)


December 28, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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Note the report in column 7: "100,000 Jap Casualties In Big Drive Chinese Claim"
Also note that this paper is reporting an earthquake in Morocco. Earthquakes were reported yesterday in Turkey, Los Angeles and London.


December 28, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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December 28, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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December 28, 1939: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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Note the report at bottom center: "Hitler At Crossroads"
(The reported rift between Hitler and Göring was untrue.)


December 28, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.)
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December 28, 1939: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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December 28, 1939: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah.
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December 28, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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December 28, 1939: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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December 28, 1939: Installment #4 of "Hitler Speaks" from The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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December 28, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Neuer Flugzeug-Vorstoß gegen die deutsche Nordseeküste gescheitert.
(Another aircraft attack against the German North Sea coast failed.)



   
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