50 FINNS KILLED, 100 HURT, IN WIDE RUSSIAN AIR RAIDS; BRITISH DOWN 3 NAZI PLANES (2/4/40)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, Cabrillo College Library | 2/4/40 | K.J. Eskelund, James MacDonald, G.H. Archambault, Frank L. Kluckhohn, Hallett Abend, Percival Knauth

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents World War II Plus 70 Years: Seminar and Discussion Forum
First session: September 1, 2009. Last date to add: September 2, 2015.
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Reds Bomb Cities – 2-3
The International Situation – 3
Raid British Coast – 5-6
Priest Wins Fame with French Army – 6
Finnish War Seen as Cue For West – 7
Netherlands Seeking Direct Air Link to U.S. – 7
Walrus Killed by Pencil Swallowed as Nazi Tidbit – 7
New Greek Envoy Here, Expresses Peace Hopes – 8
Assembly in Cuba Set to Open Friday – 8
Hull Trade Treaties Favored in Survey (Gallup) – 8
U.S. Acts on Raids by Tokyo’s Fliers on China Railroad – 9-10
U.S. and Canada Held Key Nations in War – 10
Tokyo War Chief Sees a ‘Holy’ Task – 10
Japanese Report Gains on Vast Line – 11
Firmness to Japan is Urged on the U.S. – 11
Our Navy Second in Under-Age Tons – 12-13
$25,000 Bail Fixed in Narcotics Case – 12
Scott is Acquitted in Securities Case – 13
Nazis Say English are ‘White Jews’ – 14-15

News of the Week in Review
Additional author not in thread header: Raymond Daniell

Twenty News Questions – 17
Allies See Blockade of Reich Succeeding – 18-19
Answers to Twenty News Questions - 19

[CougarGA7]

“Mrs. Jones has a new gas-mask carrier, dear.”

Really? What’s his name?

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Day 67 of the Winter War, February 4, 1940

Ladoga Karelia: Finnish troops wipe up the western 'motti' at Lemetti in the early hours of the morning, capturing a considerable amount of enemy materiel, including 32 assault tanks, 40 lorries, six field kitchens and the instruments of a military band. Only around one hundred enemy troops manage to break out of the 'motti' before its final destruction.
Photo: SA-KUVA

Finns take western 'motti' at Lemetti

• Ladoga Karelia: Finnish troops wipe up the western 'motti' at Lemetti in the early hours of the morning, capturing a considerable amount of enemy materiel, including 32 assault tanks, 40 lorries, six field kitchens and the instruments of a military band. Only around one hundred enemy troops manage to break out of the 'motti' before its final destruction.

• Northern Finland: the Russian Dolin ski brigade launches a counterattack in Kuhmo.

• Central Isthmus: enemy artillery, aircraft and assault tanks shell the Finnish positions in Summa and Lähde.

• Only in Summa village does the Soviet infantry attempt an advance, using its overwhelming superiority in numbers in an attempt to exhaust the Finnish troops, who are forced to fight and sleep in the open in temperatures of almost 30 degrees below zero.

• At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Moscow's propaganda radio announces that Finland is continuing to hound its workers, with "officer devils" spurring their troops on to burn and loot working-class homes.

• The Finnish Army is unable to find any more reserves or transfer those it has in time to cover areas where the Russians are threatening to break through.

• Eastern Isthmus: Taipale enjoys its quietest night of the year. Less than 50 mortars are fired in 7th Division's sector.

• Helsinki: children, the elderly, and the disabled are to be compulsorily evacuated from the city. Those who do not leave voluntarily will be forcibly removed.

• Abroad: Paavo Nurmi and Taisto Mäki, the famous Finnish runners currently on a tour of the USA, attend a flag-raising ceremony in the Finnish pavilion at the New York World's Fair.

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Really? What’s his name?

Good one.

BTW, for those with TCM access, the movie network is now running a 1943 movie called "Air Force." The scene on right now portrays a formation of B-17's flying from Hamilton Field to Hickam Field on Dec. 7 1941. Good B-17 shots.

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/feb40/f04feb40.htm

In Belgrade... The Balkan Entente indicate they will remain neutral in the war between Britain, France and Germany.

In the North Sea... The minesweeper HMS Sphinx sinks a day after being bombed by German aircraft.

The Winter War... Fourteen are killed and 179 injured in heavy Soviet air raids on Helsinki and the surrounding area. A total of 141 targets (towns, rail junctions, harbors) are attacked.

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http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/04.htm

February 4th, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: Destroyers HMS Basilisk and Brilliant sail from Dover; the former with the Prime Minister, War Cabinet and Chief of Staff for Boulogne. (Dave Shirlaw)

NORTH SEA: The minesweeper (sloop) HMS Sphinx sinks a day after being bombed by German aircraft.
U-17 had to break off her patrol due to serious engine trouble.

At 0417, SS Hop was torpedoed and sunk with all hands by U-37 near the Shetland Islands.
At 2125, the unescorted SS Leo Dawson was torpedoed by U-37 NE of Fair Isle. The master and 34 crewmembers were lost.

(Dave Shirlaw)

FINLAND: The Soviet offensive at Summa breaks down after heavy losses.

GIBRALTAR: The U.S. passenger liner SS Manhattan, detained at Gibraltar the previous day, is released, but not before British authorities seize 390 sacks of German mail. American diplomatic mail pouches, however, are not disturbed. (Jack McKillop)

YUGOSLAVIA: The members attending the Balkan Entente meeting in Belgrade indicate they will remain neutral in the war between Britain, France and Germany. (Jack McKillop)

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"Priest Wins Fame with French Army – 6"

"White Father From Africa an Almost Legendary Figure as a Patrol Leader

"MANY OF CLERGY FIGHTING

"Ministers of All Sects Liable for Active Service on same Basis as the Laity"

"WITH THE FRENCH ARMIES, in the field, Feb 3 -- A sector of the Lorraine front boasts of a patrol leader who is fast becoming legendary for dash, bravery and ascendancy over his ____ [illegible]. He is a White Father, a missionary in northern Africa.

"This correspondent has met more than one priest who has become an officer. there are many also in the ranks. This serves to recall that France, almost alone among nations, does not differentiate between ministers of religion and laymen in liability to military service in combat formation.

"In the World War 30,000 of the Catholic clergy, both regular and secular, joined the colors. When the armistice came they had won 16,000 citations, and of them 6,000 had been killed...

"From the Paris Diocese alone more than 500 priests are now serve at the front, including a colonel in the air force and at least one battalion commander. There are also proportionate numbers of Protestant ministers and rabbis...

Chaplains are not included in the figures, since they form a distinct category..."

Six thousand of 30,000 Catholic clergy who served killed in combat in the First World War. For the Second World War iirc, the numbers are in the hundreds rather than thousands. Still, can anyone imagine such a thing today?