Luftwaffe aeroplane sighted over the Shetlands.
The Russians launched an attack on the Mannerheim line, but
a blizzard over southern Finland, but fighting to a standstill.
Finnish successes at Lake Kianta and other points on the eastern
front have relieved the pressure on railway line from Joensuu
to Nurmes and Oulu, of great strategic importance to Finland.
Details were published of great Finnish victory in the region
of Lake Tolva, north of Lake Ladoga, where fighting raged
from December 13th to 23rd. Russian division annihilated,
and vast quantities of war material destroyed or captured.
Report from Berlin stated that Stalin had applied to the government
for 200,000 experts to reorganise the Russian economy. Later
denied.
The King visited an army division in the southern command
and made an 80 mile tour of various units.
Fight over North sea near German coast, between three British
Royal Air Force (RAF) bombers and twelve Messerschmitt long-range
fighters. One fighter shot down in flames, two others driven
down and probably lost. One British machine shot down and
another missing.
The survivors of crew of the Swedish steamers Lars Magnus
Trozelli, sunk by enemy action, landed at Haugesund.
The Estonian steamer Mina reported missing.
Freezing of Danube has cut of Germany from over three quarters
of products supplied to her by the Balkans.
Prague announced that a new wave of arrests had swept over
the protectorate, victims including ex-officers of the Czechoslovakian
army and journalists.
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The Second Great War.
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The War Illustrated.
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2194 Days Of War.
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