| In Berlin... Germany announces a counter blockade
against Britain, saying that since "economic warfare was forced on
her," Germany "is not only able to resist every pressure of
blockade and every form of British hunger warfare, but to reply to it
with the same methods."
In Germany... Cipher experts crack the British merchant ship
code, identifying convoy meeting points.
In Poland... The German forces cross the River San north and south of
Przemysl, in southeast Poland. The battle on the Bzura continues but the leaders of German Army Group South, Rundstedt and his Chief of Staff, Manstein, are
already beginning to assemble reinforcements for German 8th Army. The
Polish force at Radom is destroyed with the Germans capturing 60,000
men. The German capture of the industrial area of Upper Silesia is
complete.
In Britain... Churchill begins correspondence with Roosevelt
which he signs as "A Naval Person".
In London... The British cabinet decides no further attempt to
bomb Germany by air will be carried out. Meanwhile, plans for the
federation of India are postponed indefinitely. |
