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March 8, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Chile Pit Disaster - Nearly 300 Dead: £270,000 Damage" |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Children Trapped In Bank Vault" |
(This goes under the category Here is a Strange. Thank you Paul Harvey.) |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Magnetic Mine Risk Ended - Elizabeth's Trip Reveals New Nullifying Device" |
| (The magnetic mine risk was indeed diminished if not completely defeated by the device, but it had not yet been fitted to every ship. How sporting of the press to notify the Germans that they have created a devise that defeats magnetic mines. These press reports were noticed in Germany and they cite the "British and foreign press" as the sole source of their information. In official German documents they state "This news shows that the British counter-measures have doubtless recognized the correct way to combat the danger from these mines." This information allowed the Germans to change the type of mines they deployed in the future, which cost the lives of many more Allied sailors. One wonders if the reporters who wrote these stories, the editors who allowed them to be published and the publishers who did publish them were just brainless or were fighting for the enemy. One also wonders how this got past the censors, at least in Britain. At the very least, reports like these were grossly irresponsible. In fact, an astonishing amount of information was collected by the German High Command from western press reports. Their documents are replete with mentions of Reuters, New York Times, London Times and other print and broadcast media as the primary source for their information. This could however, act as a double-edged sword. On one side they gained valuable information (such as above) but they could also be manipulated by the Allied governments with false reports.) |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Police Foil Judy Garland Kidnap Plot" |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Wire Tapping National Evil" |
(One wonders what the Rhode Island democrat would think of what was done to candidate Donald Trump in 2016.) |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Former Congressman Found Shot To Death: |
(Reading the report it states he "has been in charge of the federal census enumeration in this district" which made me wonder if this had anything to do with his death. As can be seen in previous pages, the census in this year was wrought with protests. [See Mar. 5 to 7.] However, the last line in the report makes it appear to have been suicide.) |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Charge Stands" |
(The ongoing case against James Rosselli, who beat a census taker.] |
Also note the report in 4: "Duce, Grandfather" |
(A birth announcement for Benito Mussolini's granddaughter.) |
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March 8, 1940: Installment #5 of "The Story of Democracy" by Hendrik Willem van Loon as published in The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Grenzenlose britische Brutalität. Pflichtbewußte deutsche Seeleute will England ermorden. |
(Boundless British brutality. England wants to murder conscientious German seamen.) |
[Once again the argument of leaving German crews who scuttle their ships was discussed in the House of Commons. The idea was again rejected, but just having the argument allowed the Nazi controlled press to make hay out of it.] |
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March 8, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. 11 Handelsschiffe durch Luftangriff versenkt oder schwer getroffen. |
(11 Merchant ships sunk or badly damaged in air attack.) |
[In official German documents the number was placed as "five?"] |
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Page published March 8, 2021 |