Wir fahren gegen Engeland (1914)
HMS Repulse on the North Sea
Wir fahren gegen Engeland (1914) |
HMS Repulse on the North Sea
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Lennox (left). El Pueblo Gallego. October 19, 1939, page 1 (right)
Saturday September 23. The Polish campaign is over, asserts Germany. Mussolini says, "Europe is not at war. Since France and England did not react in the face of U.S.S.R. aggression they have no reason to wage war on the Reich."
Sunday 24. France and England reject Mussolini's plan to end the war. German and Soviet troops parade in Brest-Litovsk.
Monday 25. The situation inside Poland is catastrophic. A British destroyer is torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Eight French planes downed. Hitler thanks Slovakia for taking Germany's side. A new bill proposing America's neutrality is made public.
Tuesday 26. Slovakia demobilizes her Army. Upper Silesia has been definitively incorporated to the Reich.
Wednesday 27. Warsaw has capitulated. German aircraft attacked a division of the Royal Navy in the North Sea, sank an aircraft carrier and damaged a heavy cruiser.
Thursday 28. The fortress of Modlin surrenders. Germany and the U.S.S.R. will resolve all pending issues without the intervention of other powers. New efforts are underway to bring the war to a close.
Friday 29. Moscow and Berlin invite England and France to stop fighting. Russia and Estonia sign a pact of mutual assistance and trade.
Saturday 30. The Reichstag is convened in Berlin.
Monday October 2. The Hela peninsula surrenders to the Germans. Germany and the U.S.S.R. stand ready to bring the war to a close.
Tuesday 3. Germany is ready to accept the creation of a national Polish State. Chamberlain says in the House of Commons that France and Great Britain will continue the war "since no guarantee given by Germany will be acceptable to us." Russia sends a great mass of troops to the Far East.
Wednesday 4. A report that Mussolini intends to convene a Peace Conference is refuted. Half the population of Paris has been evacuated.
Thursday 5. Russia and Lithuania sign a pact of mutual assistance. Hitler presides in Warsaw the parade of the troops that took the city.
Friday 6. Hitler reiterates in the Reichstag Germany's will to peace, "The West's war does not settle any issue but only serves to enrich the merchants of war. To ensure peace it is necessary to resolve the questions derived from the dissolution of Poland and to ignore international concerns about the political and economic life of the peoples. Germany and the U.S.S.R. favour the creation of a Polish State that poses no threat to either one."
Saturday 7. Thirty airplanes dropped forty thousand leaflets over New York arguing against the participation of the United States in the European war. Disagreements surface in the Canadian Government about Canada's participation in the war. Belgium ratifies its neutrality.
Sunday 8. Turkey closes the Dardanelles to French and British ships. A 6,800-ton Dutch ship founders in the North Sea after hitting a mine.
Wednesday 11. The Lithuanian-Russian agreement is signed. Vilnius is ceded to Lithuania.
Saturday 14. British heavy cruiser "Royal Oak" is sunk by a German submarine with the loss of 830 crew.
Sunday 15. It is rumoured that the German Army is preparing to attack the Maginot Line. Russian-Finnish negotiations are expected to end well.
Monday 16. British heavy cruiser "Repulse" is hit and damaged by the same German submarine that sank the "Royal Oak." Finland is the only Baltic country to thwart Soviet pretensions. German aircraft bomb the Scottish coast.
Tuesday 17. The French Army is forced to retreat from the Siegfried Line. The English fleet is bombed on Scapa Flow Bay; several naval units are hit, among them a heavy cruiser.
Wednesday 18. Two English ocean liners are sunk by German submarines. Soviet troops enter Estonia.
Thurssday 19. A Turkish-French-British pact of mutual assistance has been signed obliging all three parties if the war spreads to the eastern Mediterranean. The Bulgarian Government resigns.
Saturday 21. The French evacuate Strasbourg under German fire.
Sunday 22. Holland will not let British warships escort Dutch vessels. England announces the end of assistance to the Chinese Government of Chiang-Kai-Shek. India protests being dragged to the war against her will.
Tuesday 24. Transjordania declares itself an enemy of the Reich.
Friday 27. Large contingents of German troops assemble on the French borderland. The North American Senate lifts the embargo on arm sales.
Saturday 28. German submarines have sunk a hundred and fifteen vessels from October 12 to 25.
Wednesday November 1. The Royal Navy says it has already captured half a million tonnes of German cargo.
Thursday 2. A German oil tanker opts to founder rather than surrender to the British.
Friday 3. There is talk in New York about a weapons deal worth a thousand million USD. Twenty thousand Arabs were imprisoned by the British in Palestine.
Saturday 4. Roosevelt has signed the bill on American neutrality. Soviet-Finnish relations are very strained.
Monday 6. India requests the end of British tutelage.
Wednesday 8. His Holiness entreats Italian children to pray for world peace. Hitler says in Munich, "The war's duration, however long, is absolutely indifferent to us."
Thursday 9. An attempt was made on the life of the Führer in Munich; seven people died and sixty-three were wounded. British steamer "Olive Grove" was sunk by a German submarine.
Tuesday 14. A British destroyer and two freighters were sunk.
Wednesday 15. The "God-Less" of Russia persecute Polish Catholics. Several Catholic priests were deported to Siberia.
Tuesday 21. The author of the assassination attempt in Munich was arrested. There was a dogfight in the skies above the east coastline of England. Ten vessels of various nationalities were sunk by sea mines in the past two days.
Wednesday 22. British cruiser "Belfast" was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine. Several battleships, cruisers and smaller naval units will be built in Ferrol. Englishmen implicated in Munich's failed assassination attempt were detained by German police.
Thursday 23. Belgium and Holland protest the intensification of the naval blockade. A German submarine sinks five ships at the mouth of the English Channel.
Sunday 26. The port of London is stoppled by vessels sunk in the fairway. Authorities order the rerouting of maritime traffic to Liverpool.
Monday 27. Serious incidents on the Russo-Finnish frontier. "Finnish artillery bombarded Russian territory, several officers and soldiers were killed as a result," says Moscow. "The Russians are the ones who did the shelling," replies Helsinki.
Thursday 30. Soviet troops invade Finland. The Reds occupy sundry territories on the borderland and shell Helsinki's aerodrome and other parts of the city. The Finnish Government declares a state of war.
Friday December 1. Finnish forces stall the Russian advance. Moscow masses ten Divisions on the Finnish border. All the world condemns the brutal aggression of the U.S.S.R.
Saturday 2. Finland resists the invader heroically. The Bolsheviks, unable to advance, set fire to towns and cities.
Sunday 3. London effects the decree on the seizure of German merchandise.
Monday 4. Soviet troops are forced to retreat in several sectors.
Thursday 7. Finland defends her positions heroically. Red casualties are estimated to number twenty thousand.
Saturday 9. The Russians suffer many losses in the Karelia sector. The Soviets fail to break through the Mannerheim Line.
Friday 15. Helsinki invites Moscow to a new round of negotiations.
Sunday 17. The Russian offensive in northern Finland is repelled heroically by the defenders. The Russians have lost a hundred and thirty tanks since the outbreak of hostilities. It is estimated that half a million men defend Finland.
Monday 18. Forty British aircraft were downed as they flew over German bases on the Heligoland islands of the North Sea. A Russian battalion mutinies, slays its officers and commissars and defects to the Finnish side.
Wednesday 20. The Finnish have downed fifty-nine Russian aircraft to date.
Thursday 21. The Russians shell Helsinki and other Finnish cities. The Red Army endures more heavy losses.
Friday 22. Five thousand Red soldiers perished in northern Finland. The Mannerheim Line is intact. All quiet on the Franco-German front.
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