World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Tuesday, January 2, 1940
Day 124

January 2, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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January 2, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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January 2, 1940: Front page of the Evening Telegraph and Post, Dundee, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 6: "Dog Still Waits For Master 12 Years Dead"


January 2, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 5: "Quake in Jugoslavia"


January 2, 1940: Front page of The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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January 2, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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Note the report at bottom center: "1939 Saddest Year In Generation"
(Perhaps the people currently saying that 2020 was the worst year since the Great Depression should look through these pages and maybe they might understand that there were many years which were worse. However people now days could say 2020 was the worst year in a generation and they would be right.)


January 2, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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January 2, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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January 2, 1940: Front page of CZAS Polish Times, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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January 2, 1940: Front page of The Ogden Standard Examiner, Ogden City, Utah.
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January 2, 1940: Front page of the Times Herald, Olean, New York.
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January 2, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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January 2, 1940: Installment #8 of "Hitler Speaks" from The Telegraph, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
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January 2, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Starker Widerhall der Aufrufe des Führers.
(Strong echos of the Führer's calls.)


January 2, 1940: Front page of Sorauer Tageblatt Der Beobachter, Sorau, Germany.
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1. Athenia Fall geht LügenChurchill auf die Nerven.
(The Athenia case rests on Churchill's nerves.)
(Athenia was the first British ship sunk in World War II.)
2. Die Welt in Banne der Führer=Neujahrsbotschaft.
(The world is under the spell of new leaders-New Year's message.)



   
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