| 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.
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