Heavy Russian attack in Karelian Isthmus was repulsed. In the North Russian troops
checked by snowstorms.
The USS Tuscaloosa arrived at New York with 579
survivors from the scuttled German liner Columbus.
Unidentified aircraft
appeared on the eastern countries.
Palace announced that two more U-boats
had been sunk by the French fleet.
The Swedish steamers Mars and Adolf
Bratt were sunk by mines.
The British Admiralty announced the sinking
by Luftwaffe aircraft of the fishing trawlers HMS Pearl on the
17
December 1939, and HMS Trinity an
18
December 1939, and the trawlers HMS Evelyn and HMS Sedgefy were overdue and
presumed lost.
It was reported that British troopship collided in fog,
with liner Samaria the latter being damaged.
Hans
Langsdorff
Commanding the
Graf
Spee commits suicide so as not to disgrace the German Navy.
T7
Torpedo boat
Commissioned 20 December 1939
Go To: 21st
December Articles: We
have scuttling drill on the Columbus
The Second
Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited
by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
ISBN-10: 086136614X
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