Censorship of the press messages from Moscow reimposed.
Fierce hand-to-hand fighting on frozen Suvanto River near
Mannerheim line.
Finns claimed to have wiped out two Russian companies. Reported
that Russians have brought up picked Ogpu troops into Karelian
Isthmus.
The British air ministry announced successful reconnaissance
of north-west Germany, an
27 December 1939. One aircraft failed to return.
The British Royal Air Force (RAF) fighters chased unidentified
aircraft from Scottish coast.
The British Admiralty announced that the trawler HMS Loch
Doon must be considered lost with a crew of fifteen.
The Danish steamer, Hanne was sunk by a mine. Eight survivors
out of forty three of the British freighter Navasota torpedoed
early in December, landed at Cape Town.
The French Senate accepted a budget of £ 450,000,000
after a stirring speech by M Reynaud, Finance Minister.
German authorities announced that the entire population (70,000)
of the Polish town of Kalisz were to be deported to make room
the German Balts.
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The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
2194 Days Of War.
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