military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (11/28/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Tuesday, 28 November, 1939 Moscow, reporting three new incidents of Finnish troops firing upon Russian soldiers and attempting to cross the border, renounces the 1932 Soviet-Finnish Non-Agression Pact. Finland claims that the artillery fired into Mainila was Soviet, not Finnish. Berlin announces that Lieutenant-Captain Gunther Prien, whose U-47 sank the HMS Royal Oak, has sunk a cruiser of the 10,000-ton London class. The British Admiralty denies the claim. British aircraft machinegun three German seaplanes at their base on the Ems river. The seaplanes are reportedly of the minelaying sort. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Our government sought by all means to settle the conflict peacefully, but the Finnish Government did not want that. Now let them look out." - From a Workers' Resolution at the Stalin automobile works in Moscow