Russian troops in Salla sector, said to be in revolt. Detachment
of Finnish troops reached and damaged Leningrad, Murmansk
railway at three points. Finnish suicide company of 250 picked
ski troops, first sent forward to attack railway, reported
to have penetrated as far as Kandalaksha, an important Russian
base, an arm of the White Sea. Russians have maintained pressure
in the Karelian Isthmus where they now have nine divisions.
Finnish government protested to Estonia against presence of
Russian destroyers in Tallinn harbour.
The British battleship torpedoed by a U-boat on
28
December 1939 reached port under own steam.
Paris reported renewal of air activity on the Western front.
The British trawler Resercho was sunk by a mine in the North
sea.
The British steamer Moortoft was reported sunk.
It was also reported that the fishing trawler Adam came under
Luftwaffe attack and was bombed and machine-gunned.
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The Second Great War.
Edited by Sir John Hamilton
The War Illustrated.
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2194 Days Of War.
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