Allied consider Black Sea blockade and oil routes
Reports say London and Paris study extending naval blockade to the Black Sea to curb Russian oil shipments to Germany via Constanta. Soviet tankers reportedly store oil for Germany in Standard Oil tanks awaiting Danube thaw before river transshipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sermion
Black Sea
Roumania
Germany
London
Paris
Turkey
Roumanian
Constanta
United States
Standard Oil Company
Danube
Reich
Moscow
Georgia
Armenia
Saku
Russia
Caucasus
Iran
British Warship Seizes Soviet Freighter Selenga
Asahi Shimbun reports a British warship halted the Soviet freighter Selenga of 2,492 tons carrying 1,006 tons of tungsten ore from Manila to Vladivostok. The ore reportedly stems from a Chinese government barter with Germany before the war. The incident signals tougher British policy toward Soviet Russia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Asahi Shimbun
Manila
Vladivostok
Germany
Soviet Russia
Finland aid fund tops 300000 in week drive
Major General John O'Ryan national chairman of Finland fighting funds, Inc announces a $300,000 collection within a week to buy arms for Finland, turning the sum over to the Finnish minister in Washington. He said the drive aimed at raising $100,000,000 for Finland's military needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Finland
Washington
John O'Ryan
Fighting Funds For Finland, Inc
O'Ryan
Swedish activists press for aid to Finland without direct intervention
A Stockholm campaign urged Premier Hansson to hold and aid Finland with Swedish assistance. The northern freedom conference called for non intervention and urged Swedish youth to help the Finnish army. King Gustaf supported aid but ruled out direct military involvement, easing political crisis fears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Finland
Per Albin Hansson
Gustaf
Sweden
Air Force Pay Rates In Ottawa Revealed
An air commodore on the general list earns 19 dollars daily with allowances, while the non flying list yields 17 dollars. General list pay scales follow with Group captain 15, wing commander 12, squadron leader 9.75, flight lieutenant 8.50, flying officer 7, and pilot officer 6.25. non flying list officers receive 2 dollars less. Warrant officers and NCOs receive 4.20 down to 0.70 for boys, with various steps for other ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottawa
Royal Canadian Air Force
Cosgrave Blames IRA for Road to Anarchy
William T. Cosgrave, leader of the United Ireland party in the Dail, denounced the Irish Republican Army as pursuing a road to anarchy and bringing dishonor to Ireland. He spoke as the party unanimously re-elected him leader. He asserted the IRA was declaring war on Great Britain with little public support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
William T. Cosgrave
Dail
Irish Republican
Ireland
Free State
United Ireland Party
Ir.a
Great Britain
I.R.A
Revolt in Lwow reported during Soviet rule in Poland
Travellers from Polish lands under Soviet control say a revolt broke out in Lwow. Ukrainian and Greek Catholic rebels clashed with Soviet police and local commissars, eight police were killed, and Russian forces used machine guns and artillery to pressure surrender. Some detainees were executed on the spot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cernauti
Roumania
Poland
Russia
Lwow
Toll Of U-Boats London
Winston Churchill announced the Royal Navy’s high rate of German submarine destruction. The Commons rejected a proposal to use German prisoners on dredgers and lightships amid German air attacks along the British coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Navy
London
Winston Churchill
Admiralty
House of Common
Richard Butler
Allied Naval Control Tightened Around Neutral Waters
Allied fleets tighten surveillance of German ships along the Norwegian coast and Arctic waters as a response to the Altmark incident. France and Britain reserve right to take reprisals for neutral water violations. Neutrals urged to patrol their own waters to maintain neutrality. The German steamer Wiegand attempts to refloat the Altmark after being iced in at Joessingfjord.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Norwegian
Norway
Arctic
Petsamo
Finland
Cossack
Germany
Wiegand
Joessingfjord
Red Leader takes command on Karelian front in Finland
General B H Shaposhnekov is described as now directing Russian operations in Finland’s Karelian front after an order from Stalin to end the Finnish war quickly and victoriously, regardless of casualties.
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Finland
B. H. Shaposhnekov
Josef Stalin
Contraband control debate in Commons over U S warShip exports
In the House of Commons suggestions that British contraband control fails to halt war supplies via neutral channels were raised. Geoffrey Mander pressed Ronald Cross for information on Soviet purchases and tin shipments to Vladivostok, while Major General Knox questioned the rise in American exports to 13 European neutrals versus Britain in late 1939 and urged action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
United States
Germany
House of Commons
Geoffrey Mander
Ronald H. Cross
Vladivostok
Mander
Alfred Knox
Cross
Britain
Sir Alfred
Britain Sends Massive Arms to Finland Amid War Aid
Britain releases large wartime shipments to Finland including 144 aircraft and 150 anti-tank rifles. Additional matériel covers anti-tank mines anti-tank ammunition hand grenades howitzers machine guns anti-aircraft guns field guns tanks mortars and small arms supplies via France and Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Finland
France
Britain
Russians Ordered Home From Istanbul Turmoil Deepens
Hundreds of Russian technical experts in Turkey under a Turkish Russian accord are ordered to return to Russia with families aboard Russian ships bound for Odessa. The move comes as Russia liquidates commercial interests in Turkey amid talk of spring conflict in the Near East. German experts in defense industries and Krupp yards are also sent home as Turkey aligns with Britain and France to defend the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Istanbul
Moscow
Russia
Odessa
Russian
Black Sea
Turkey
Near East
Caucasian
Krupp
Great Britain
France
Europe
Tribute to Britain Baghdad and Arab ties to Empire
The Arabic newspaper Swatash Shah praised Britain's attitude toward small nations and said Britain and Iraq share identical principles. It claimed Arabs are democratic by instinct and that democracy underpins the British Empire. It also warned of German propaganda circulating in Arab countries to turn Muslims away from Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baghdad
Swatash Shah
Iraq
Great Britain
Britain
Fishermen Chal lenge Nazi air threat from British trawlers
London reports that Britain’s fishing fleet is arming anti aircraft weapons to repel Luftwaffe raids. Four trawlers reportedly repelled a Heinkel attack near the North Sea with Grimsby boats involved. Crewmen recount close encounters, machine gun exchanges, and a damaged raft of ships as attackers faced crossfire and returning fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Germany
Grimsby
Germany to challenge ban on oil shipments to Reich
Romania tightens mobilization plans as Dr. Karl Clodius arrives to press for full 1940 oil quota delivery. Reservists move to centers while railways flood with tanks and artillery as trade talks with Italy loom and Berlin weighs a fuel ban amid war pressures.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Germany
Karl Clodius
Clodius
Italy
Reich
Great Britain
France
Norway Loses Ships in War Neptune Toll Surges
Oslo reports total Norwegian shipping losses since the war began at 49 vessels aggregating 168 527 tons with 327 seamen killed. Survivors say the Sram was torpedoed February one off Scotland coast. Dutch trawler Petten Ym-49 sunk by mine. Tara and Den Haag foundered with crew saved or missing. Telnes overdue from New York voyage.
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Oslo
Sram
Stockholm
Scotland
Norway
North Sea
Viking Bank
Telnes
New York
Tara
Cape Finisterre
France
Netherlands
den Haag
England
New Vaccine Reported by Pasteur Institute Dakar
The French Academy of Science was told of a vaccine claimed to prevent smallpox and yellow fever. The Pasteur Institute of Dakar Senegal reported it has been used on 100000 Senegalese with full success.
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Roumania
Germany
Paris
French Academy of Science
Pasteur Institute
Dakar
Senegal
New Zealand Officer to Represent on Empire Air Scheme Board
Wellington New Zealand Group Captain Isitt of the New Zealand air board will travel to Canada as the official representative of the New Zealand government on the supervisory board of the Empire air scheme. The assignment marks NZ involvement in the trans imperial aviation program.
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Wellington
N.Z
Isitt
New Zealand Air Board
Canada
New Zealand
Empire Air Scheme
University of Montreal Sole Legatee of $141,000 Estate
The University of Montreal is the sole legatee of the $141,000 estate of Aristide Casavant, son of an organ manufacturer of St. Hyacinthe. Casavant died in 1938, leaving the university as the only beneficiary.
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Montreal
University of Montreal
Aristide Casavant
St. Hyacinthe, Quo
Casavant
Polish Government in Exile Protests Russian Draft Move
The Polish government in exile delivered a note to the French government accusing Russia of planning to conscript Poles in violation of international law. A similar note was also delivered in London.
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Paris
Russia
London
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