RAF Bomber Command: 2 Group: In the event of invasion 21 Blenheims would be used to spray gas if necessary.

Boscombe Down: The prototype Avro Lancaster arrives for acceptance tests. It is fitted with triple fins and lacks either dorsal or ventral turrets.

Minesweeping trawler HMS Dragora mined and sunk in Thames Estuary.

FRANCE: VICHY FRANCE: All civil servants and state officials are ordered to swear an oath of allegiance to Marshal Petain.

GERMANY:

ALBANIA: Italy's foreign minister, Count Galeazzo Ciano and other senior members of the Italian government arrive in Albania to take up active military commands. Ciana takes command of a bomber squadron. This measure is designed to boost morale.

ROMANIA: The preparatory work on the Danube bridges to enable them to carry the Wehrmacht's heavy tanks, begins.

LIBYA: One company of the Australian 2/11th Battalion captures Fort Rudero on the heights above Derna capturing 290 prisoners and 5 field guns. 
 

ERITREA: Barentu: The British advance from the Sudan has been held up at this mountain fortress and the bridge across the river Baraka at Agordat.

The 4th and 5th Indian Divisions and the Sudan Defence Force began by retaking the border town of Kassala eight days ago. Next day they crossed the frontier.

The 5th Indian Div. found Tessanai deserted, its garrison in retreat, and went onto Barentu. Forty miles north a flying column under Colonel Frank Messervy, "Gazelle Force", penetrated as far as Keru Gorge before being stopped. There the British suffered their only set-back so far. 10th Indian Brigade, trying to outflank the Keru defences, got lost, was strafed by planes, and its commander, Major General Bill Slim, retired with a bullet in his backside. It was two days before Messervy was through the gorge, his artillery fighting off a frontal cavalry charge on open sights. Now Messervy is outside Agordat and the 5th Indian outside Barentu.

JAPAN: Tokyo: The Peruvian ambassador to Japan warns his American counterpart, Joseph Grew, that the Japanese plan to destroy the US fleet at the naval base of Pearl Harbor; Grew passes the information on to Washington.

CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Outarde launched North Vancouver, British Columbia.

U.S.A.: Washington: This week, for the first time in history, senior US and British military staff officers will meet here in secret to hammer out a common strategy in case the United States finds itself at war with Germany or Japan (or both) in alliance with Britain. The talks, known as "ABC1", illustrate how quickly Washington is changing its view of the danger of war. On 12 November Admiral Stark, the chief of US naval operations, sent "Plan Dog" to the navy secretary, Frank Knox, giving priority to war in the Atlantic and urging closer links with Britain.