military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (10/20/89)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Saturday, 21 October, 1939 Following rejection of Hitler's peace offer by Britain and France, Germany is angered at rumors that she will make a second offer, and states that the war is on to the finish. The first German attack on a British convoy, in the form of nine He 115 seaplanes, is defeated. The convoy was attacked off the Humber coast, and suffered no losses, while 4 Heinkels were downed. Original reports that the steamship Clement was sunk by the pocket battleship Admiral Scheer are now contradicted by rumors that the attacker was actually the seaplane tender Schwabenland, and that that ship was sunk a few days later by British cruisers. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "The situation needs no further clarification. England and France rejected the Fuehrer's hand of peace. They threw down the gauntlet... Germany has taken it up." - German News Bureau