military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (01/14/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Sunday, 14 January, 1940 Soviet aircraft violate Norwegian airspace and drop bombs near Lulea, Sweden. Both countries file protests in Moscow. Meanwhile, the USSR likewise protests these nations' support of Finland. Holland and Britain cancel military furloughs, and in Belgium, the army is fully mobilized and civilians are evacuated from frontier areas. The action has been precipitated by German troops concentrating near that nation's borders and a tip from Rome about an upcoming German offensive. In Finland, a dozen towns are bombed by Soviet aircraft, and the villa of the US envoy is damaged. The Finnish armed yacht Aura is torpedoed and sunk by a Russian submarine. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Throughout the month of December quarter and press hostile to the Soviet Union, headed by the newspaper Social Demokraten, closely connected with the government, carreid on an impermissible campaign against the Soviet Union which could be expalined only in the case if Sweden were in a state of war with the U.S.S.R. or was preparing for war against the U.S.S.R." - Tass