The British Prime Minister returned from visiting the British
Expeditionary Force (BEF) after meeting of supreme War Council
in Paris.
Further Russian advances in Northeast of Finland, threatening
the highway to the Arctic and rearguard of Finnish troops
near Petsamo. Helsinki and other coastal towns bombed by Russian
aircraft. Russian battleship reported sunk by Finnish batteries
at Koivisto.
The German liner, Columbus was scuttled by her crew 300 miles
of united states of America coast.
Marked activity of contact units reported from the Western
front.
Eleven more cases of bombing and machine-gunning of fishing
made known. Of these, Active and Zealous were sunk. the British
steamer City of Kobe was sunk after hitting a mine, after
surviving Luftwaffe attacks.
Three neutral ships reported sunk through enemy action. The
Norwegian steamer Glitrejell. The Danish steamers Jytte and
Bogoe.
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