The British Admiralty announced that the destroyer which sank
two U-boats on the 9 February 1940 was HMS Antelope
U-boat bombed and possibly destroyed by aircraft from the
British Royal Air Force (RAF) coastal command.
Finns admitted that Russians had penetrated their forward
positions at three points one east of Summa sector, and two
between Muola Lake and Vuoksi River. But elsewhere, all attacks
had been repulsed. Eight more Russian planes shot down. Finnish
aeroplanes bombed Russian railways and stations behind the
lines.
The Swedish government refused the Finnish appeal for direct
military assistance and also for passage of foreign troops
through their territory.
It was reported that the Danish steamers Rhone and Sleipner
were torpedoed off the north east coast of Scotland on Thursday
night.
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