military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (11/10/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Friday, 10 November, 1939 The Government of the Netherlands requests Berlin to conduct an inquiry into yesterday's Venloo Incident. U.S. citizens are advised to leave the Netherlands. The Dutch army is mobilized, and flooding preparations are made. A new deadlock arises in Soviet-Finnish negotiations. It is rumored that the two sides cannot agree on the disposition of the port of Hangoe. A carrier pigeon is caught in Mexico, bearing a message capsule believed to be from a German U-boat, and reporting its position some 15 miles off Tampico. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "We shall suffer and we shall suffer continually, but by perserverance and by taking measures on the largest scale, I feel no doubt that in the end we shall break their hearts." - Winston Churchill, on the naval war.