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Sunday 5 January 2020

Memel becoming Lithuanian naval base according to the Dutch newspaper Het Vaderland dated 25 January 1936

An item reported that the minister of war of Lithuania announced that the port of Memel was to be altered into a naval base for the future Lithuanian navy. This announcement caused quite a lot of discussions within political an military circles in the Baltic Area. According to some uncertified rumours was the Soviet Union involved in those developments.