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Series

Series Name

Gaumont British News

Issue

Issue No.

624

Date Released

28 Dec 1939

Length of issue (in feet)

662

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. Review of the Year 1939
• 2. War Clouds Nearer Home
• 3. Hitler Enters Memel
• 4. The Nazi Soviet Pact
• 5. Russia Invades Poland
• 6. Russia Invades Finland
• *The King’s Christmas Broadcast
• *Finnish Army Repels Russians
• *Airmen Fire Fighters
• *Belgian Police Dogs Trained
• *Cairo Police Parade
• *Whale Washed Ashore
• *Volcano Active in Japan
• *Aboriginal Dance in Australia

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 6

Summary

Including Ribbentrop in Moscow. Germany invades Poland. Britain prepares. Evacuation. The War starts. Siegfried and Maginot Lines. "Athenia" torpedoed

Keywords

Politics and government; Civil defence; Military

Length of story (in feet)

169

Story extras:

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Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean

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