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November 13, 1939: Front page of The Daily Mail, Hull, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: "Steamer Strikes Wreck" (The steamer, Drysburgh, hit the wreck of the Danish ship Canada, which sank on Nov. 3rd. after hitting a German mine. See The Examiner of Nov. 8, 1939.) Also note the report in column 4: "British Warship Sinks U-boat" (The last U-boat sunk by a British warship was sunk on Oct. 14th.) |
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November 13, 1939: Front page of The Leeds Mercury, Leeds, England. |
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Note the report in column 2: Channel Steamer Was Not Bombed" (The original report was front page news yesterday.) Also note the report in column 6: "Threatening Tone of Soviet Press" |
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November 13, 1939: Front page of the Press and Journal, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
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November 13, 1939: Front page of The Sydney Sun, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. |
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Note the report at center: "34 Thetis Bodies Raised" (This is referring to the submarine HMS Thetis, which sank on June 1, 1939.) Also note the report at the bottom of columns 5-6: "Mine Sinks Liner At Singapore" (The Admiralty announced a few days later that it was a British mine which sank the ship.) |
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November 13, 1939: Front page of The Mercury, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. |
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November 13, 1939: Front page of The Winnipeg Tribune, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. |
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November 13, 1939: Front page of Het Volksdagblad, Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
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November 13, 1939: Front page of The Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa. |
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Note the report in column 6: "Ex-Gangster Sick, Broken" (The release of notorious mobster Al Capone after many years in prison for income tax evasion.) |
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November 13, 1939: Front page of the Dunkirk Evening Observer, Dunkirk, New York. |
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November 13, 1939: Installment #2 of "Stalin Unmasked" from the San Antonio Light, San Antonio, Texas. |
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November 13, 1939: Front page of the Hamburger Neueste Zeitung, Altona, Hamburg, Germany. |
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1. Neue wichtige Feststellungen zum Münichner Attentat. (New information on the attack in Munich.) 2. Eisenbahnunglück in Oberschlesien. (Railway accident in Upper Silesia.) [The report in English can be seen at the bottom of column 7 of the Dunkirk Evening Observer above.] |
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