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Day 64
Friday 3 November 1939

Senate adopts neutrality report by 55 votes to 24

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The day in dispatches

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WireALThe Atlantic Ledger

City of Flint has sailed south along Norway with destroyers astern

The American freighter City of Flint, held by a German prize crew, passed Maaloy, 100 miles north of Bergen, on Thursday morning, followed by two Norwegian destroyers, according to a Bergen message. She is expected to pass Bergen during the night.

At sea
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WireFECThe Far Eastern Courier

Hong Kong receives 40 new tanks as Japan seizes junks

Forty of the latest Vickers whippet tanks have arrived in Hong Kong, placing the colony at almost the last stage of preparedness against any threat in the Far East, the Hong Kong correspondent of the New York Times writes.

Far East
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WireLSThe London Sentinel

Tribunals have interned 136 enemy aliens out of more than 13,000

More than 13,000 enemy aliens have appeared before the tribunals examining their histories, and 136 have been interned, British Official Wireless reports.

Home front
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WireLSThe London Sentinel

King has decorated five airmen for gallantry on active service

King George VI has decorated four Royal Air Force officers and a sergeant pilot for gallantry on active service, pinning on the awards in a hangar somewhere in England, according to a London message. The men are aged from 21 to 26.

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WireLSThe London Sentinel

British officials credit RAF flights with mapping the Siegfried Line

Royal Air Force reconnaissance flights have produced a very complete picture of the Siegfried Line, of German air bases and of other military targets in north-west Germany, British Official Wireless reports. Twenty such flights have been made in the last two months, it says.

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WireSOThe Stockholm Observer

Finnish delegates are waiting in Moscow while the Supreme Soviet sits

Finland's delegation has arrived in Moscow, but the resumption of talks on the Soviet demands has been delayed by the meeting of the Supreme Soviet, according to a Moscow message. No meeting between the Finns and Soviet officials had taken place by late on Thursday evening, a London message says.

Baltic
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WireNYRThe New York Register

House rejects both motions to bind its neutrality conferees

The House of Representatives has rejected two motions that would have instructed its conferees on the neutrality bill to keep curbs on arms exports, the Congressional Record shows. A motion by John Vorys of Ohio failed by 245 votes to 179, and one by James Shanley of Connecticut failed by 243 to 181.

Washington

Where things stood at the start of the day

Finland
Finland has laid mines off Hanko. Its reply to the Soviet demands is going to Moscow.
London
Chamberlain dismissed Molotov's account of Allied aims as flights of fancy. Halifax says only Germany can repair confidence.
Holland
The Netherlands has declared martial law along its German frontier.
Washington
The Senate stood ready for a neutrality conference as the House prepared its votes.
At sea
The Coulmore says she eluded the submarine. The German tanker Emmy Friederich was scuttled in the Caribbean.
India
Zetland expects a fifth Congress ministry to resign.
Britain
Britain has delivered 1,600,000 steel shelters, and 78 per cent of evacuated children are still away.