Glasgow: The workers at John Brown's shipyards go out on strike.

Westminster:

Captain Margesson, the Minister of War, reports to the Commons that German air losses from all causes and in all theatres (except the Mediterranean), since the war began, amounted to 5,346 planes and that the total British losses were 854.

ENGLISH CHANNEL: Minesweeping trawler HMS Kiryado mined and sunk.

Tug HMS Sun VII lost due to unknown reasons.

GERMANY:

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Italian submarine 'Anfitrite' attacks a troop convoy GA-8 east of Crete and is sunk by escorting destroyer HMS Greyhound.

EGYPT: German planes lay mines in the Suez Canal, blocking the British supply route to Greece and North Africa.

Cairo: Churchill telegrams to Eden agreeing that the situation in Greece had worsened - so much so that he War Cabinet found it difficult to believe that Greece could be saved unless Turkey or Yugoslavia came in on the allied side, which now seemed most unlikely.

Eden replies later in the day: "...we are unanimously agreed that ... the right decision was taken in Athens..."

ETHIOPIA: Burye: the first Ethiopian guerrillas to enter Burye wore a hybrid mixture of captured Italian uniforms and tribal robes. There was no resistance. Bombed by the RAF and besieged by the Sudanese and Ethiopians, the 6,000-man garrison slipped out in the night; Ethiopia's "Patriots" have won their first victory. The Italians had resisted for a week, but an attack on their communications by the guerrilla leader Haile Yusuf forced them to withdraw. However, they did destroy one Ethiopian battalion blocking the retreat.

The American United Press Agency reported:

The East African war has turned into a race to Addis Ababa between the army of Abyssinian volunteers and the mechanised South African troops who stand in such remarkable contrast to each other. The South African troops are advancing from Mogadishu toward Harar, which lies about 30 miles from the Djibouti-Addis Ababa railway line.

CHINA: Ichang: Fierce fighting has broken out on the western bank of the Yangtze river in western Hupeh, as Japanese troops today launched a new offensive aimed at driving the Chinese back into the mountains, west towards the Kuomintang capital of Chungking.

The offensive - the first in the region since November - began at 0530 hours as Japanese artillery shelled Chinese positions to provide cover for three regiments which advanced and took the Chinese stronghold at Chang-kang-ling. At the same time, on another flank, between 600 and 700 Japanese infantry, with aerial and artillery support, took Fan-chia-hu.

AUSTRALIA: Minesweeper HMAS Ipswich laid down.