http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/jan40/f11jan40.htm
French restrict sale of meat
Thursday, January 11, 1940 www.onwar.com
In France... The government announces that Friday will be a “meatless day” and that no beef, veal or mutton will be sold on Mondays or Tuesdays.
The Winter War... Finns beat off reinforcements attempting to break through to the encircled Soviet 168th Division (north of Lake Ladoga). Soviet forces supply the pocket by air. There is a new Soviet attack in the area of Salla (in the “waist” of the front), toward the Kemijarvi-Tornio railway. Meanwhile, the Swedish volunteer air group, Flygflottilj 19, begins operations from the frozen Lake Kemi, with 12 Gladiator fighters and 4 Hart light bombers.
In Britain... The Women’s Section of the Air Transport Auxiliary delivers its first airplane from factory to depot. This is one more indication of women’s increasing usefulness in the war effort, but not everybody likes it. There has been considerable public protest against the use of women pilots while men are kept idle on the waiting list for the RAF.
I almost feel sorry for “Ivan” (Is there a Russian equivalent other than Ivan for “GI”, “Landser” or “Tommy”?) conscript troops, not Russian in many cases, mostly incompetent officer corps (Thank you, Joe Stalin.) trapped on the Finnish roads, cut off from the rest of his Division in some truly nasty weather and just waiting for the end.
I almost feel sorry for “Ivan” (Is there a Russian equivalent other than Ivan for “GI”, “Landser” or “Tommy”?) conscript troops, not Russian in many cases, mostly incompetent officer corps (Thank you, Joe Stalin.) trapped on the Finnish roads, cut off from the rest of his Division in some truly nasty weather and just waiting for the end.