HE port of New York has been chosen as the key point for London, Dec. 8.
A new British secret weapon was believed responsible for bringing down a Nazi plane on the Norfolk coast on Wednesday, the tabloid "Daily Sketch" said yesterday in a front-page story.
"No official announcement alarm is growing. A tremendous shipment of American-built planes and other war materials number of windows have been to the Allies, it was reliably learned last night.
About 20 light broken by bomb explosions, making a large part of the city uninhabitable trucks, the first of the Anglo-French orders for 6,000, were driven in the present weather. The snow here and shipped to Staten Island on Wednesday. The majority has turned into slush and the roads of 38 Lockheed bombers flown from California have already been are seas of mud, rendering the Rus-crated and sent to Staten Island for shipment to the Allies. sian advance more laborious than British destroyers were already picking up loaded freighters ever.
The Russians, it is believed here, en route to Halifax, Canada, where they will join large convoys are trying to cut Finland in two by escorted by British and Canadian warships, and bombing and driving a wedge through at Brovaniemi, 120 miles from the Soviet fron-scouting planes on both sides of the Atlantic. The British and tier, to the Gulf of Bothnia, The French are negotiating with Boeing Consolidated Aircraft for the Russians claim they have reached a purchase of many patrol and bombing planes and flying boats, it point 97 miles of Brovaniemi and are was reliably learned.—United Press. within 25 miles of a rail-road, the cutting of which would be an im-The State Department announced portant victory. Finnish sources declare that the Russians have only
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