U-204, U-561 launched.

ROMANIA: Budapest: Associated Press reports that the revolt has been crushed and the Antonescu government has announced that it is in complete control of the situation.

BULGARIA: Sofia: General Boydev, the Bulgarian army Chief of Staff, has agreed terms for co-operation with German military officials.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Under continual attack, HMS Illustrious is repaired temporarily in Malta and leaves for Alexandria. Her sister ship HMS Formidable is sent out via the Cape of Good Hope, but it is some weeks before she reaches the Eastern Mediterranean.

ERITREA: The British Exchange News Agency reports:

British motorised troops have advanced approximately 42 miles into the interior of Eritrea in their sharp pursuit of the retreating enemy. Supplies of fuel and provisions are getting through and making it possible to continue motorised operations.

LIBYA: An advance guard of the Australian 6th Division, supported by British units, is ordered to advance on Derna located about 100 miles (161 kilometres) by road west-northwest of Tobruk 

CANADA: Luftwaffe Oberleutant (USAAF 1st Lieutenant; RAF Pilot Officer) Franz von Werra escapes from a train which is taking him from Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the ship bringing him to Canada from the U.K. had docked, to the POW camp at Neys, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Superior. At 0530 hours local, the train slows and pulls into a rail yard near Smith Falls, Ontario, and von Werra and another prisoner break a window and jump into the snow along the tracks. The other prisoner is recaptured by von Werra makes his way on foot to Johnstown, Ontario, on the St. Lawrence River, where he steals a rowboat and makes his way across the partially frozen river to Ogdensberg, New York, on the neutral U.S. side. He is caught by U.S. authorities and charged with illegal entry into the U.S resulting in a diplomatic tug-of-war with Canadian officials who want him back. Von Werra makes his way to New York City and, funded by German money, escapes to Mexico and then to Panama, Peru, Bolivia, and, by mid-April, to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he flies back to Germany. On 25 October 1941 von Werra's plane crashes off the coast of the Netherlands while on a routine Luftwaffe mission. Neither von Werra's aircraft nor his body were ever found. Von Werra was the only known German prisoner to escape in Canada and make it back to Germany. 

U.S.A.:  Charles A. Lindbergh, a national hero since his nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic in 1927, testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Lend-Lease policy and suggests that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Hitler.