World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Monday June 24, 1940
Day 298

June 24, 1940: Front page of the Manchester Evening News, Manchester, England.
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June 24, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 3: "Vital Food Stocks Greater Than Ever Before"


June 24, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England.
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June 24, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland.
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Note the report in column 3-6: " Full Text Of The Terms France Accepted"


June 24, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.
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Note the report in column 7: "Trawler Makes Prize of Italian Sub."
(This report is true, the unnamed submarine was Galilei, 16 of the crew were killed in this action.)
Also note the report in column 2: "Japan Moves Towards Indo-China"


June 24, 1940: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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June 24, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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June 24, 1940: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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June 24, 1940: Front page of Haarlem's Dagblad, Haarlem, Netherlands.
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June 24, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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June 24, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C.
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Note the report in column 3: "12 Indicted in Chicago In Concrete Inquiry"
(Chicago labor leader Michael Corrozzo and eleven others charged with conspiring, by strikes and threats of strikes, to restrain the use of ready-mix concrete.)
Also note the report in column 7: "Barring Bund Members And Reds From Job Hits"
(The ACLU objecting to proposed legislation which would ban members of the German-American Bund (the American Nazi party) and communists from holding not only public (i.e. government) jobs, but also from holding a job with a private employer. I would agree with banning such people from holding government jobs, if only for national security and espionage concerns. However, you cannot punish an American citizen for their political beliefs. At least that's how America is supposed to be, as we all know the so-called "progressives" (i.e., the left,) along with the digital Nazis at twitter, facebook, google, apple, amazon and the like, along with the left-wing media, the democrat party, the FBI, NSA, and other government agencies continuously punish American citizens (Republicans, conservatives and especially Trump supporters) who they disagree with. This is not only un-American, and in the case of the government, it's unconstitutional. More to the point it's dangerous and destructive to a free nation.)


June 24, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio.
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June 24, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas.
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June 24, 1940: Front page of the Hattiesburg American, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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June 24, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.
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Note the report in column 4: "British Sink Fascist Sub Off Suez"
(This is a report of the sinking of the Italian submarine Torricelli. The report also states that the total number of Italian submarines "definitely destroyed" is seven. This is incorrect, in fact to this date only three other Italian submarines had been lost to enemy action, one other was lost when it was grounded. However, by the end of June nine Italian submarines would be sunk.)


June 24, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Churchills neuestes Machwerk: Französische Gegenregierung.
(Churchill's newest creation: French counter-government.)
2. Reuter erfindet Brand einer Hamburger Margarinefabrik.
(Reuter invents a brand for a Hamburg margarine factory.)


June 24, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP.
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1. Die italienischen Bedingungen überreicht.
(The Italian terms are presented.)
2. Ein Sieg größten Ausmaßes.
(A victory of the greatest magnitude.)



   
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