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August 25th, 1939 (FRIDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM:
For the first time in seven and a half years, the base rate of the Bank of England
is
increased, from 2% to 4%.
Coventry: Five people are killed and there is extensive damage when an
IRA bomb explodes in Broadgate.
Dahlerus arrives in London.
A treaty of mutual assistance is formally signed between Poland and Great Britain.
18 trawlers are provisionally allocated to Fleetwood command for minesweeping and
anti-submarine patrols. 8 of these are sent to Larne. Milford Haven Command gets 15
trawlers and assigns 2 to Belfast. Operational Command at Belfast is vested in the
FOIC Belfast, who sets up his headquarters at
the Custom
House.
GERMANY:
Ambassador Attolico tells Hitler that Italy will not support Germany without German help
with arms. On hearing of this and the formal alliance between Britain and Poland, Hitler
cancels his invasion date, 0430 the following morning.
The Panzerschiffe "Deutschland" sails from
Wilhelmshaven in preparation for raider activities in the North Atlantic in the
event of a declaration of war. (Alex Gordon)
POLAND:
Numbers of border incidents increase.
In Makeszowa, near Katowice, German soldiers took over the court house and railway
station; Poles broke into an wrecked the offices of a German newspaper.
More reservists are called up and cars and horses requisitioned.
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