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April 26, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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Note the report in column 1: "French Liner As Troopship" |
(Another report, giving information to the enemy, about the upcoming voyage of one of the biggest passenger ships in the world.) |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Goods From Sea Wrecks" |
(Local people were pilfering washed up merchandise from some of the ships that had been sunk. I should point out that this was a very common occurrence and had been for centuries.) |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of the Derby Evening Telegraph, Derby, England. |
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Note the report at bottom center: "Spies Read Parish And School Magazines" |
(A report perhaps the editors of larger publications should have considered before publishing the movements of large passenger ships, as already mentioned above. This report demonstrates further the kind of information that could be valuable to the enemy. The majority of people do not realize that the press is a vast resource of what is called "open-source" information. Combatants on both sides combed all the papers every day for whatever nuggets of information that could be gleaned from the papers. In World War II, the Axis powers benefited from open-source information much more than did the Allied powers. That is because the Allied powers had a much more open (and often times irresponsible) press, while the Axis press was controlled by the respective governments.) |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Another Big U-Boat" |
(The French claiming that they had sunk another U-boat. The last U-boat sunk had been U-49, which was sunk by H.M. ships.) |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 3: "Communist Banner In Parade" |
Also note the report in column 3: "Censorship Control" |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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Note the report at bottom left: "Quebec Women Get Right To Cast Ballots" |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands. |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of The Kingsport Times, Kingsport, Tennessee. |
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Note the report in column 1: "Klan Conviction Spurs Georgians" |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of the Nevada State Journal, Reno, Nevada. |
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Note the photo at top right: "Britain Tests Five New Battleships" |
(The new battleships were the King George V Class battleships. HMS Prince of Wales is featured in the photo, but it had been launched on Mar. 5, 1939, over a year before this paper was published.) |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of the San Mateo Times, San Mateo, California. |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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Note the report in column 7: "Indict Scalise On 53 Charges of Extortion" |
(George Scalise, president of the Building Services Employees International Union (AFL) indicted on charges of extortion and conspiracy. Another man, Isadore Schwartz, a union representative, was also indicted.) |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of the Teltower Kriesblatt, Teltow, Germany. |
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1. Abrechnung mit der Lügenhetze. |
(Accounting for the lies.) |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Elf Feindflugzeuge bei Andalsnes vernichtet. |
(Eleven enemy aircraft destroyed near Åndalsnes.) |
2. Wieder nächtlicher britischer Luftangriff auf Oslo. |
(Another British nighttime air raid on Oslo.) |
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April 26, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. Feindlicher Flakkreuzer und zwei U-Boote vernichtet. |
(Enemy anti-aircraft cruiser and two submarines destroyed.) |
2. Note the cartoon of Winston Churchill at bottom left. |
Churchill sprach vom englischen Amphibiencharakter - von Charakter kann wohl keine Rede sein. |
(Churchill spoke of the English amphibian character - there can be no question of character.) |
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Page published April 26, 2021 |