The British Admiralty announced that the sinking of the HMS
Rawalpini on
23
November 1939 off the coast of Iceland, was due to the
overwhelming attack by the battleship
Deutschland
(wrongly reported actually it was,
Scharnhorst
and
Gneisenau).
Two enemy merchantmen, Borkum and Konsul Hendrik Fisser, were
captured. The latter was brought into port, the former was
sighted and shells by a U-boat, killing four Germans, but
none of the price crew. The ship was abandoned.
The Dutch liner Spaarndam was mined of the Thames estuary.
Paris reported that local infantry and artillery engagements
east of the Moselle.
Finnish government issued a denial that shots had been fired
from the Finnish side of the frontier, but suggested to the
Russians a mutual withdrawal of troops.
Reprisal order in council signed by the King.
The British Admiralty received overwhelming response to the
appeal, the drifters to assist in minesweeping.
Two corporations are formed in the United States to enable
Americans to contribute towards war relief in Great Britain
and France.
Go To: 28th
November
Articles:
We
manned the guns of the HMS Rawalpindi
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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