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Finnish Loan Gains in Senate as House Fires on Soviet Ties – 2-3
Arming of Finland Speeded by British – 3
Schools in Britain Becoming Normal – 4
Smuts Shows Scope of Nazis’ Activities – 4
British Railways Get Profit Pledge – 5
The International Situation – 5
1,500 Russians Die as Drive is Pushed in East, Finns Say – 6-7
Soviet War Planes are Held Obsolete – 7
Parley at The Hague Under Police Guard – 7
Soviet Ship Brings $5,600,000 Gold to U.S. To Replenish Commercial Balances Here – 8
Saracoglu Sees War Kept from Balkans – 8
Roos is Executed by French as Spy – 9
50 Depart from Here to Fight with Finns – 9
Red Fliers Bomb Russians In a Raid on Prison Town – 9
Finding of Small Balloons Scares English Villages – 9
Americans Slain in Polish Terror – 10
Incidents in European Conflict – 10
Finns List Heavy Losses Of Soviet War Materials – 11

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1940/feb40/f08feb40.htm

Finns suffer artillery ammo shortages
Thursday, February 8, 1940 www.onwar.com

The Winter War... The Finns are very tired and their artillery is running short of ammunition. Throughout this period (of Soviet attacks beginning on February 1st) the diplomatic exchanges via Sweden continue, but achieve nothing in the face of Soviet refusals to modify their terms.

In Paris... Police raid the Soviet Press Agency and discover that it is being used as a front for pro-German propoganda.

On the Western Front... Two French soldiers capture a German patrol in Forbach Woods. One of the soldiers, Joseph Darnand, later heads the Vichy French secret police (January 10, 1943).

In the United States... “Harry Sawyer” (Sebold) arrives in New York to lead a German spy network in the USA. His special equipment includes “microdots”. (Sebold is a double agent, working for the FBI).

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/andrew.etherington/month/thismonth/08.htm

February 8th, 1940

UNITED KINGDOM: Destroyer HMS Holderness launched. (Dave Shirlaw)

EIRE: U-37 landed an agent in Donegal Bay. (Dave Shirlaw)
FRANCE:
Paris: Police raid the Soviet Press Agency and discover that it is being used as a front for pro-German propaganda.

On the Western Front, two French soldiers capture a German patrol in Forbach Woods. One of the soldiers, Joseph Darnand, later heads the Vichy French secret police. (Jack McKillop)

GIBRALTAR: U.S. freighter SS Scottsburg is detained at Gibraltar by British authorities. (Jack McKillop)

U.S.A.: William Sebold, aka Harry Sawyer, arrives in New York City from Genoa, Italy, to lead a German spy network in the USA. His special equipment includes “microdots.” Sebold, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had returned to Germany in February 1939 to visit his mother and was approached by German intelligence. He was recruited in September 1939 but because his U.S. passport had been stolen, he was allowed to go to the U.S. Consulate in Cologne to get a new one. While there, he told consulate officials about his recruitment and offered to work with the FBI on his return to the U.S. His testimony helped to convict 33 German agents in 1941. His story was the basis for the 1945 movie “The House on 92nd Street.” (Jack McKillop)