THE WAR, STEP BY STEP

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 102, 18 December 1939, Page 2

THE WAR, STEP BY STEP

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14. ! An Admiralty communique -iniioun ces that a British submarine reported the Bremen having passed >vithin torpedo range homeward bound. Rules of the sea warfare precluded the submarine from torpoeding the Bremen without warning. Russia makes no reply to League of Nations request that she cease operations in Finland. Copenhagen reports state that the Finnish guerilla I ret icy "continue i r-e----cessfully. Russian comma 1 ", i claims continued advance on a!! fronts. There has been no aviation activity owing to the low ceiling. Nazis do not dare to launch ;'.n attack on the Western Front savs Marshal Gamelin, Allied Command-er-in-Chief. German Freedom radio warr.s Hitler to get out of country in 100 days or he will be killed. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 35. The special committee of the League of Nations, which has been considering Finland's appeal against Russia, has adopted a resolution recommending Russia's expulsion from the League. The committee has also recommended that the Powers assist Finland. A Copenhagen message states that the Swedish tanker Algol struck a mine in a German minefield. It is reported from Berlin that the British freighter Deptford was torpedoed north from Bergen. British steamer Marwick Head strikes a mine off the east coast. Six out of the crew of eleven are missing Berlin radio claims that the British tanker San Alberto has been J sunk but does not 11 m'.ion where or the fate of the civw The Paris communique slates that there was overnight pvitroi activity on the central part of Hie Wostern Front. An air raid alarm in .southeastern France lasted -1"» minutes. The Air Ministry states that security patrols flew over the Island of Sylt, Borkum and in order to interrupt ihe acti/. ty ol minelaying aircraft. Germans claim that the light cruiser Achilles has been sunk.