Telegram from the Chiefs of Staff to the C-in-C Med., Middle East and AOC-in-C MIDDLE EAST:

It has been decided that it is necessary to give Greece the greatest possible material and moral support at the earliest possible moment. Impossible for anything from UK to arrive in time. Consequently only course is to draw upon resources in Egypt and to replace them from UK as soon as possible.

Plan is thus:

Aerodromes must be made ready for three Blenheim and two Gladiator Squadrons with Anti-Aircraft protection. One battery HAA guns and one battery LAA guns should be dispatched to supplement Greek AAA.

To replace aircraft 34 Hurricanes will be staged through Takoradi from HMS Furious, 32 Wellingtons will be staged through Malta.

It is intended to increase the weight of attack from Malta by bringing the number of operational Wellingtons to 24.

It is appreciated that this will leave Egypt very thin for a period...

ALBANIA: The Greek counter-attack starts, and reaches the Korce-Peratia road.

TANGIER: The Spanish incorporate the international zone of Tangier ". . . in view of present circumstances."

U.S.A.: Submarine USS Silversides laid down.

Secretary of State Cordell Hull protests to Vichy French Ambassador Gaston Henry-Haye about possible military collaboration of Vichy Government with Germany. Hull states, ". . . this Government is too much concerned about possible future attacks by Hitler to acquiesce in the slightest with acts of the French Government that would aid or encourage Hitler in still wider conquest, especially in the direction of this hemisphere."

     Douglas DC-3A-197, msn 1925, registered NC16086 by the U.S. airline United Air Lines, crashes into Bountiful Peak in the Wasatch Mountains 3.5 miles (5,6 kilometers) northeast of Centerville, Utah, at 0442 hours local during a snowstorm. There are eight passengers and two crew aboard United Flight 16 from Oakland, California, to Salt Lake City, Utah. The failure of the communications operators at Tintic, Plymouth, and Salt Lake City, Utah, whose duty it is to monitor the radio range, to detect its malfunctioning and immediately notify those concerned and the failure of the pilot to follow to the fullest extent established radio range techniques in accordance with the requirements of the procedure established by United and approved by the Civil Aeronautics Administration, is blamed for the crash.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Kapitanleutnant Otto Kretschmer's U-99 attacks and sinks Armed Merchant Cruiser Patroclus. There are 230 survivors.