World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Thursday April 11, 1940
Day 224

April 11, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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Note the paragraph in column 5: "Destroyer Meets Greatly Superior Force"
(This is one of the first acknowledgments that the destroyer, HMS Glowworm, had been lost.)


April 11, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the photo of Emden at bottom center.
(The report claims the ship had been sunk, which was incorrect. It had been damaged in a gun battle with the Norwegian minelayer HNoMS Olav, but did not sink.)
[More about Emden here.]


April 11, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England.
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April 11, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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April 11, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the sub-headlines: "Four German Cruisers Sunk, Two Damaged" and Germany Admits Loss of Karlsruhe and Bluemher in Landings" [Note that "Bluemher is actually Blücher.]
(While the Germans lost many ships during the invasion of Norway, the report was not completely correct. Three cruisers had been sunk, Blücher, Karlsruhe and Königsberg, while one more, Emden had been damaged. A number of smaller warships and merchant ships had also been lost up to this point.)


April 11, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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April 11, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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April 11, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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April 11, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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April 11, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California.
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April 11, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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April 11, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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April 11, 1940: Front page of the Syracuse Herald-Journal, Syracuse, New York.
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April 11, 1940: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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April 11, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany.
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1. Der volle Erfolg der Nordland-Aktion.
(The full success of the Norwegian action.)


April 11, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Fünf britische Kriegsmaterialschiffe im Hafen von Bergen beschlagnahmt.
(Five British merchant ships carrying war materials captured in Bergen harbor.)
2. Deutsche Truppen auf Bornholm.
(German troops on Bornholm.)



   
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