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Day 41
Wednesday 11 October 1939

Britain has sent 158,000 troops to France, the War Secretary says

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WireLSThe London Sentinel

Censorship moves out of the Ministry of Information, Hoare tells Commons

Press censorship and the issuing of news have been taken away from the Ministry of Information and handed to the departments that supply the news, Sir Samuel Hoare, the Lord Privy Seal, told the House of Commons this afternoon.

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WireIRThe Imperial Review

British Army in France is under French command, Hore-Belisha says

The British Army in France is under French command, Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of State for War, told the House of Commons this afternoon.

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WireLSThe London Sentinel

Britain has sent 158,000 troops to France, the War Secretary says

Britain transported 158,000 men to France within five weeks of the outbreak of war, Leslie Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of State for War, told the House of Commons this afternoon.

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WireNYRThe New York Register

Senate rejects Tobey motion to split the neutrality bill, 65 to 26

The United States Senate yesterday rejected, by 65 votes to 26, a motion by Senator Charles W. Tobey of New Hampshire to send the neutrality bill back to the Foreign Relations Committee, according to the Congressional Record.

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WireSOThe Stockholm Observer

Finland advises civilians to leave Helsinki and Viipuri areas, Associated Press says

Urho Kekkonen, Finland's Minister of the Interior, has advised civilians to leave the areas around Helsinki, the capital, and Viipuri, a city near the Soviet frontier, as a precaution, the Associated Press reports from Helsinki.

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WirePDThe Paris Dispatch

Daladier says France will fight on until its security is guaranteed

France will go on fighting until it has a definite guarantee of its security, Édouard Daladier, the French Prime Minister, said in a radio broadcast to the French people last night.

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Where things stood at the start of the day

Air training
Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have agreed in principle to train airmen together, with advanced training mainly in Canada.
Peace
Chamberlain will give Britain's answer to Hitler's proposals in the Commons on Thursday, after consulting the Dominions.
Finland
Paasikivi has left for Moscow by train for talks with the Soviet Government.
Sweden
Sweden is keeping 100,000 men in service beyond their release date.
Convoys
Coastal Command says it escorted more than 100 convoys in the first four weeks of the war.
North Sea
A German flying boat fell into the sea after a fight with an RAF reconnaissance aircraft, the Ministry of Information says.