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Air Fields Bombed – 2-4
The International Situation – 3
Submarine Sinks British Coast Ship – 5
U-Boats Go Into Mass Production As Nazis Strain to Increase Them – 6
Colombia Prepares For Rule By Decree – 7
Incidents in European Conflict – 7
The Littlest Victim (Editorials) – 9-10

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1939/dec39/f06dec39.htm

Independence Day in Finland
Wednesday, December 6, 1939 www.onwar.com

In Finland... Independence Day is celebrated. Some 50 aircraft arrive from Italy.

In Helsinki... President Kallio receives a message of sympathy from American President Roosevelt.

The Winter War... Soviet forces complete a series of landings on seven islands in the Gulf of Finland. There are heavy Soviet attacks on the Mannerheim Line defenses.
In Germany... SS forces kill the inmates of Stralsund and Chelm mental asylums.

In Berlin... A note is issued to the Foreign Press in which neutral countries, especially Holland, are condemned for a lack of resistance to the British blockade.

In the Hague... A semi-official protest of the German note is registered.

In Britain... During the night, German seaplanes and destroyers lay mines off the eastern coast. The British destroyer HMS Jersey is engaged and torpedoed by German destroyers during the operations.