1931 (SATURDAY)
CHINA: Japanese troops withdraw from Chinchow to await the adjournment of the League of Nations Council.
1937 (SUNDAY)
JAPAN: Premier KONOYE Fumimaro again rejects third-party participation in the Sino-Japanese peace negotiations when peace terms are formulated.
SPAIN: Spanish Head of State General Francisco Franco proclaims a naval blockade of the entire Spanish coast, with Nationalist naval forces using Majorca as their base of operations.
1938 (MONDAY)
GERMANY: A Lufthansa Fw 200 airliner, registered D-ACON and named "Brandenburg," takes off from Berlin on the airline's first flight to Tokyo, Japan. The 14 228 kilometer (8,841 mile) flight, with refueling stops at Basra, Iraq; Karachi, India; and Hanoi, French Indochina, takes 26 hours and 18 minutes and breaks the distance record. The aircraft arrives in Tokyo on 30 November.
November 28th, 1939 (TUESDAY)
UNITED KINGDOM: London: The King signs orders in council for the seizure of German exports on the high seas.U.S. freighter SS Winston Salem is detained at Ramsgate, Kent, England, by British authorities.
Patrol vessel HMS Pintail commissioned.
Corvettes HMS Nigella and Penstemon laid down.
FRANCE:
Into the mess-room of a British fighter squadron behind the Maginot Line the other evening
came a stranger, his eyes blinking at the light, a half-fearful look on his face.
Shepherding him were two RAF officers. "Here's the lad who fooled the lot of
us," they said. The others led the stranger to the bar, shook his hand, and thumped
his shoulders. "What's the German for 'What'll you have?' " asked one. Only a
few hours earlier the stranger had been piloting a German Dornier bomber which had crashed
after a sporting fight. The RAF men decided that they must have him to dine with them and
they sat him at the right hand of the commanding officer.
Daily Mail.
GERMANY: Friesian Islands: RAF fighters attack Luftwaffe minelaying seaplanes at Borkum. "6 Blenheims of No. 25 Sqn and 6 from 601 (AuxAF) auxiliary Squadron (City of London). flew through a rainstorm near the end of their 250 mile flight and came down on Borkum from the clouds just before dusk, diving in sections of three machines. They caught the German air base by surprise. Coastal patrol boats opened fire on them. The Blenheims hit five of the mine-laying seaplanes that were their targets on their slipways. One of the Blenheims flew through a gap in the mole, others came in low over the hangers. Machine-gun posts on the mole were put out of action and patrol boats machine-gunned. No hits were reported on the Blenheims."
FINLAND: In far north, three Finnish border guards disappear form the Pummanki border guard -post. Tracks indicate that Soviet troops had crossed the border and kidnapped the men.
U.S.S.R.:
Moscow: Russia renounces the 1932 Russo-Finnish non-aggression pact.
Molotov claims that the Finnish reply reveals its hostile intentions towards the Soviet Union therefore nullifying the non-aggression pact; meanwhile the workers' demonstrations continue demanding that the Finnish provocateurs be punished. On Moscow Radio is read an announcement by the Leningrad military district that the Finnish provocations have continued.
The Finnish cabinet hasn't reached a unanimous decision on how to react. There's a growing feeling that the Soviets have to be placated somehow, but some ministers, the Minister of Defence Juho Niukkanen included (he originates from Karelia near the border and a significant proportion of his voters live in territories demanded by Soviet Union), still resist any concessions.
AUSTRALIA: The Government decides to send the 6th Division, Second Australian Imperial Force, overseas when their training is completed.
U.S.A.: James Naismith, the creator of modern basketball, dies at the age of 78. (Tony Webber)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: U-47 fired one torpedo at cruiser HMS Norfolk, but failed to hit it.