| In Britain... A German He111 bomber was shot down
by RAF fighters east of Dalkeith in southeastern Scotland -- it is the
first German airplane shot down over the British Isles. Tow of the 4-man
crew survived. The aircraft is part of Luftflotte 2 which is
based in the extreme north of Germany and is engaged in attacking
shipping off the northern and eastern coasts of Scotland.
In France... The British Expeditionary Force is reported to
have enough food to feed its nearly 200,000 troops for 46 days.
In Berlin... Himmler issues his Lebensborn decree,
urging single German women to dispense with the "bourgeois
custom" of marriage to bear racially pure children.
In Occupied Czechoslovakia... German police fire on student demonstrators in Prague marking the
20th anniversary of the former
Czechoslovakian independence. Street fighting later breaks out in the
city center with ethnic Germans clashing with Czech nationalists. One
student is killed and a total of 16 casualties are reported. Some 3500
people are arrested.
In Bratislava... Joseph Tiso becomes the first president of
independent Slovakia (formerly part of Czechoslovakia).
In Moscow... Molotov -- in a speech before the Supreme Soviet -- asserts
the that USSR has a right and duty to adopt strong measures to insure
security and publicly demands territorial concessions from Finland.
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