Tuesday, January 2, 1940 - Red Army fights for Finnish positions

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The Winter War... Heavy Soviet attacks on the Karelian Isthmus are noted. Soviet forces launch a major offensive. The Battle of Salla begins: Finns make unsuccessful attempts to encircle the Soviet 122nd Division in the "Waist" of the front.

In Britain... The blackout is said to have established the importance of Vitamin A for good eyesight in the dark. A survey indicates that one in five persons have had an accident in the blackout. Furthermore, deaths by road accidents in the four months since the blackout began exceed 2000, about 1700 more than the average for the period in peacetime. People are advised to take Cod-liver oil capsules.

In Prague... Journalists and officers of the former Czechoslovakian armed forces are rounded up in a new wave of arrests by the Nazis.
 
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