FRANCE: Toulouse: General Charles de Gaulle, the leader of the Free French, has been sentenced in his absence to a four-year term of imprisonment by a military court in Toulouse.

De Gaulle, who was the under-secretary for National Defence in the French government when he fled to London in June, was also fined 100 Francs. He has already been reduced in rank to Colonel. Vice-Admiral Muselier, commanding Free French air and naval forces, is also to be prosecuted.

GERMANY: Berlin: The German News Bureau reported:

We have learned concerning the attack of the British fleet on French warships in the port of Oran, that some of the ships were not under steam at the time of the sudden British assault, and were so positioned in the harbour that they could not bring their heavy artillery to bear. The battleships Dunkerque and Provence, as well as the combat flotilla leader Mogador, now lie burning in Oran harbour. The battleship Bretagne was apparently blow up by a British-laid mine as it put to sea. The battleship Strasbourg, five flotilla leaders and a large number of torpedo boats and submarines succeeded in fighting their way through the encircling British ships and broke through to the Mediterranean.

U-453 and U-454 are laid down.

ROMANIA: The country has a new cabinet. Gigurtu is Prime Minister and Manoilescu is Foreign Minister. The policies of the new government are clearly pro-German and anti-Semitic.

PORTUGAL: Lisbon: The Duke of Windsor is appointed Governor of the Bahamas.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Alexandria: Admiral Cunningham is able to reach agreement with French Admiral Godfrey on the demilitarisation of battleship 'Lorraine', four cruisers and a number of smaller ships.

Colonial sloop FS Rigault de Genouilly sunk off Algiers by submarine HMS Pandora.

GIBRALTAR: The first aerial combat takes place between British and French aircraft about 30 leagues (104 miles) southwest of Gibraltar. Three French Curtiss Hawk fighters attack a British Sunderland flying boat that was on patrol against U-boats. The Sunderland shot down one fighter and damaged a second.

EAST AFRICA: Italian forces advance into Sudan, occupying Kassala and Gallabat.

U.S.A.: New York: A bomb in the British hall of the World’s Fair goes off, killing two people.

Two motion pictures are released in the U.S. today.

   "Manpower" a drama directed by Raoul Walsh, stars Edward G. Robinson, Marlene Dietrich, George Raft, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh, Eve Arden, Barton MacLane and Ward Bond; Diana Barrymore and Faye Emerson have uncredited bit parts. Robinson and Raft are members of a power company road gang who meet Dietrich in a clip joint and then she comes between them.

   "Moon Over Miami," a musical directed by Walter Lang, stars Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Jack Haley, Carole Landis, Charlotte Greenwood and Jack Haley. Grable and Landis are gold diggers from Texas who arrive in Miami looking for rich husbands.

CANADA: Corvette HMCS Dauphin laid down Montreal.
Corvette HMS Hepatica (later HMCS Hepatica) laid down Lauzon, Province of Quebec.

Minesweepers HMCS BURLINGTON and NIPIGON are laid down in Toronto.