World War II As It Happened
A MaritimeQuest Daily Event Special Presentation
Fridayday, December 1, 1939
Day 92

December 1, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England.
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Note the report in column 5: "Japanese Bomb Another Chinese City"
Also note the report in column 7: "Rating Of Cruiser Belfast Dies"


December 1, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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December 1, 1939: Front page of The Midland Daily Telegraph, Coventry, England.
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December 1, 1939: Front page of the Evening Telegraph, Dundee, Scotland.
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December 1, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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December 1, 1939: Front page of The Melbourne Argus, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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December 1, 1939: Front page of The Lethbridge Herald, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
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December 1, 1939: Front page of the Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
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December 1, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Dutch communist paper.)
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December 1, 1939: Front page of the Dunkirk Evening Observer, Dunkirk, New York.
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December 1, 1939: Front page of the Butte Montana Standard, Butte, Montana.
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December 1, 1939: Front page of the Biddeford Daily Journal, Biddeford, Maine.
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Note the report in column 2: "German-American Bund Seeks Funds To Assist Fritz Kuhn"


December 1, 1939: Front page of The Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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December 1, 1939: Installment 20 of "Stalin Unmasked" from the San Antonio Light, San Antonio, Texas.
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(This is the final installment, the complete 20 installments are available as a PDF in the MaritimeQuest Library.)


December 1, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany.
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1. Rücktritt der finnischen Regierung.
(Resignation of the Finnish Government.)
2. 194 auf England fahrende Schiffe versenkt.
(194 ships sailing for England sunk.)



   
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