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December 4, 1940: Front page of the Nottingham Evening Post, Nottingham, England. |
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December 4, 1940: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the photo in column 1 of Mary James, who had been arrested by the Gestapo. Earlier reports give her name as May James. |
December 4, 1940: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England. |
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December 4, 1940: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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Note the report in columns 1-2: "U-Boat Sunk In Its Own Back Yard" |
(I can find no U-boat attack that fits this description.) |
December 4, 1940: Front page of The Examiner, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. |
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Note the photo at top left: "Probably A Familiar Sight On Mediterranean" |
(HMS Ark Royal with a flight of Swordfish aircraft.) |
December 4, 1940: Front page of the Daily Telegraph, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report in column 4: "Mystery Of Pearl Lugger" |
December 4, 1940: Front page of The News, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. |
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December 4, 1940: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. |
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December 4, 1940: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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December 4, 1940: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine. |
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December 4, 1940: Front page of The Evening Star, Washington, D.C. |
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December 4, 1940: Front page of The Evening Gazette, Xenia, Ohio. |
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December 4, 1940: Front page of The Port Arthur News, Port Arthur, Texas. |
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December 4, 1940: Front page of The Helena Independent, Helena, Montana. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Jap Paper Hints At War With U.S." |
December 4, 1940: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California. |
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December 4, 1940: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Gründung des größten Immun-Biologischen Forschungsinstituts der Welt. |
(Founding of the largest immunobiological research institute in the world.) |
2. Bilanz der 23 Großangriffe im November. |
(Record of the 23 major attacks in November.) |
December 4, 1940: Front page of the Völkischer Beobachter, the official newspaper of the NSDAP. |
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1. 21 Dampfer an einem Tage versenkt. |
(21 Steamships sunk in one day.) |
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