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January 24, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the photo of HMS Grenville. |
Also note the report in the Latest News column: "Ship Sinking Off U.S. Coast" |
(There is more on this report in column 5 of the paper below.) |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of the Evening Telegraph, Dundee, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 5: "Radio Amateur Who Picked Up SOS" |
(This report provides some further details about the report in the top paper. The story is completely clarified in the Biddeford Daily Journal below. This is an interesting example of a rumor getting around the world before the facts come out. It is also a little comical, but at the time was considered very serious.) |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Black-Out Perils Speed Limit 20 M.P.H." |
(Another report which covers this can be found in The Kingsport Times of Jan. 21, 1939. That report states that more people are killed in traffic accidents than had been killed in battle so far.) |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 5: "32 Days Without a Traffic Death In City" |
(In contrast to what was happening in London, Winnipeg, since they had no black-out, was a much safer city to travel in.) |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report at top right: "Army Officer Arrested Following False S.O.S." |
(The remaining details of the reports in the first two papers. The report is continued here.) |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of The Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana. |
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Note the headline: "FDR Will Not Run: Lewis" |
(So much for the opinion of Mr. Lewis.) |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana, Standard, Butte, Montana. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "U.S. Sidesteps Jap Request For Temporary Trade Pact" |
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January 24, 1940: Installment #9 of "Four Years Against Hitler" from the Press and Journal. |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kreisblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Tokio verlangt Auslieferung der 21 deutschen. |
(Tokyo demands extradition of the 21 Germans.) |
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January 24, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Zerstörer Exmouth vernichtet. |
(Destroyer Exmouth destroyed.) |
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Page published January 24, 2021 |
