The British air ministry announced that it was now known that
at least seven out of 12 Luftwaffe aircraft failed to return
to their base after last Saturday's attack on British convoy
in the North sea.
There were minor encounters between contact units and artillery
action on both sides at various points on the Western front.
Southern Rhodesia Air Force (SRAF) offered to maintain three
air squadrons in the field on any front.
The British Admiralty announced that the wreck of a German
submarine containing more than 50 dead had been washed up
on the Goodwin Sands.
Murmansk Marine authorities ordered the release and the immediate
departure of the United States vessel City of Flint, brought
in by a German prize crew on Tuesday.
Russian government replied to British governments letters
on
6-
11
September 1939 on questions of war contraband, declining to
recognize the validity of the British contraband list or the
British governments right to inspect and detain Russian merchant
ships.
It was officially confirmed in Berlin, that Adolf
Hitler intended to bring back all German minorities from
all countries.
An Austrian Freedom radio station began sending out anti-Nazi
broadcasts.
Hans
Frank becomes Governor General, of occupied Poland with
his capital at Krakow.
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