military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (10/28/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Sunday, 29 October, 1939 German raiders and U-boats are authorized to attack passenger ships in Allied convoys. Norway and Denmark regretfully announce that, due to the international climate, they will be unable to participate in the 1940 World's Fair. Finland, on the other hand, still intends to return next year. The International Olympic Committee announces that then 1940 Olympics will be held in Detroit, should Finland relinquish her right to hold the games. The whereabouts of the City of Flint are unknown. Soviet authorities verify that she left Murmansk two days ago, but US diplomats are indignant over the vagueness of Soviet communications. Berlin claims over 500,000 tons of British merchant shipping sunk, while London puts the figure at about 210,000 tons. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "Sister Susie's sewing shirts for soldiers, such skill at sewing shirts our shy young sister Susie shows, Some soldiers send epistles, Say they'd rather sleep in thistles, Than in the saucy soft short shirts for soldiers sister Susie sews." - WWI song revived in honor of over 5,000,000 British women now knitting for the war effort