THE WAR, STEP BY STEP

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 98, 8 December 1939, Page 2

THE WAR, STEP BY STEP

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6. Country snowbound as storms rage over Finland. The military situation in that country is unchanged. King George lands in France on a visit to the Western Front. Polish information Bureau states that .'<oo of the 350 hostages of Gdynia were shot in batches after digging their own graves. The Gestapo shot them with revolvers while those not yet murdered looked on. Mass executions are also reported from Posnania and Pomerania. It is revealed that there are 144 Germans from U-boats prisoners in Britain. There is no confirmation of the reported capture of an enemy submarine in the English Channel. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7. Finns halt the Soviet advance and claim to have inflicted heavy casualties on Monday but do riot state numbers of killed and wounded. it is reported that Finnish aircraft dispersed Soviet troops who landed on the caost and attempted to reach Petsamo. Finns are using mostly Italian 'planes. Neutral source states that by no means of incendiary bombs dropped on the Murmansk airport, the Finns destroyed GO Russian aeroplanes. Mystery surrounds the fate of the 3 0,000 tons Blue Star liner? Doric Star, which rad previously been reported as attack by a German raider The steamer Horsted torpedoed ofF the East Coast of Britain and thirteen survivors were rescued. Australia alters military plans and will retire militia and introduce compulosry training. Russia reinforcing her troops the Caucasians and middle Asia. British troops concentrate in Egypt and Turks assemble on the Russor Turkish frontier. !