Xref: utzoo sci.military:2963 soc.misc:1449
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!cbnews!military
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Newsgroups: sci.military,soc.misc
Subject: 50 Years Ago: Thursday, 16 November, 1939
Message-ID: <11494@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 17 Nov 89 06:10:22 GMT
Sender: military@cbnews.ATT.COM
Followup-To: soc.misc
Lines: 24
Approved: military@att.att.com



From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker)
Thursday, 16 November, 1939

General Sikorski,  Premier of the Polish government-in-exile, announces
that the Polish Army and Air Force are being reformed in Britain and France. 
He also predicted that "the convulsions now shaking Europe would lead to
the emergence of the idea of European solidarity." (Quoting the NY Times)

Italy warns that it will not tolerate a Soviet invasion of the
Balkans.

The British and French fleets expand their search for German "pocket 
battleships" to the Indian Ocean.  It is believed that the Africa Shell
was sunk by either the Deutschland or the Admiral Scheer.

--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--	--
Bill Thacker			            military@cbnews.att.com
Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com

"Italy will never permit the further advance of Bolshevist Russia beyond
the Carpathians, in the Danube Valley, in the Balkans or toward the
Mediterranean." - Gazzetta del Popolo (Turin, Italy)