MINES FORCED LONDON PORT TO CLOSE (11/25/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 11/25/39 | James B. Reston

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

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.
Reading assignment: New York Times articles delivered daily to students on the 70th anniversary of original publication date. (Previously posted articles can be found by searching on keyword “realtime”.)
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[Homer_J_Simpson]

Few Hours’ Tie-Up – 2-3
Incidents in European Conflict – 3
2 Freighters Sunk By Mine and U-Boat – 4-5
Admiralty Admits Damage to Cruiser – 6-7
The International Situation – 8
Nazis Doubt Diplomatic Good-Will Of Dutch Over Border ‘Incident’* – 8-9

Latest chapter on the Stevens and Best saga.

[abb]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/nov39/f25nov39.htm

Germans mine Swedish waters
Saturday, November 25, 1939 www.onwar.com

In the Baltic Sea... German forces lay mines off the southwest coast of Sweden, inside the 4-mile limit of Swedish territorial waters.

In London... The governments of Italy, Japan, Denmark and Sweden make representations to the British Foreign Office regarding the policy of reprisals.

In Britain... After attempts to save New Forest ponies in the blackout by painting them like zebras, they are removed to safe pastures.

In Bucharest... A new Romanian cabinet is formed by Tatarescu. A smaller pro-German element is reported.

[beebuster2000]

i wonder whats going on with finland? isnt the invasion by the soviets just a couple weeks away?

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Five days. Yeah, it looks like Finland is off the press radar at the moment. Nothing on the front page. Even in The International Situation synopsis. The magnetic mines have the everyone freaked out.

[beebuster2000]

i am surprised that so many mines can be dropped by planes. arent they pretty big? how many can one plane drop?

doesnt seem too efficient, drop a 1,000 and hit one boat. but i guess its kind of a terror weapon. the threat of mines is the weapon not the mine itself.

[dfwgator]

Even a blind man could see even at this point what the Nazis had in mind for The Netherlands.

[CougarGA7]

As for the reported captured U-Boat, we all know that it is not the same boat (U-47) that sunk the Royal Oak, but I think this story is bogus all together. I went through the War Department conclusions for today which had both Chamberlain and Churchill in attendance and there is no mention of a captured sub at all. There is a lot of concern about the Deutchland’s whereabouts and extensive discussion about the magnetic mines (which that portion of the report unfortunately is almost unreadable).