CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Lidice: German security police surrounded the mining village of Lidice, outside Prague, early today and rounded up the whole population, more than 400 people. The 173 men and boys over 15 were shot and the 198 women and 98 children have been driven off to concentration camps. Houses and all other buildings have been razed to the ground and the name of the village erased from official records. Another village, Lezaky, suffered a similar fate later today; 17 men and 16 women were shot and 14 children gassed.

An official German statement said the action had been taken "to teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility" after the assassination of Reinhardt Heydrich, the deputy Reich protector of Bohemia and Moravia. Thirteen children of Lidice have been allowed to survive - because they have blonde hair. They will be raised as good "Aryan" Nazis in Germany.

The Nazis have offered a reward of ten million Czech crowns for information leading to the capture of the assassins. A raincoat, two briefcases and a lady's bicycle which were found at the scene of the attack are on display in a city shoe shop. So far the perpetrators have eluded efforts to find them.

U.S.S.R.: Black Sea Fleet and Azov Flotilla: Shipping loss: MS "TSch-405 "Vzrivatel"" - is sunk by field artillery, close to Eupatoria (later raised) (Sergey Anisimov)(69)

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: Operation Harpoon involves a convoy from Gibraltar to Malta, under Admiral Curteis. His escort forces include 1 battleship, 2 carriers, 4 cruisers, and 17 destroyers and 6 merchant ships. There are also several merchant ships sailing independently. Admiral Vian leaves Alexandria with another convoy for Malta under Operation Vigorous. The 11 merchant ships are escorted by 8 cruisers and 26 destroyers.

NORTH AFRICA: German forces fight their way out of their defensive position, known as the "Cauldron".

LIBYA: Bir Hakeim: Free French troops retreat to El Gobi on the third day of a heavy German attack.

JAPAN: Tokyo radio ignores the Battle of Midway and announces that the occupation of Attu and Kiska Islands in the Aleutian Islands is a "great victory." The Japanese Army's North Sea Detachment, which invaded Attu Island on 7 June, begins unloading equipment from ships and starts developing defensive positions.

CANADA: Minesweeper HMCS Port Arthur arrived Halifax from Montreal.

An additional Lend-Lease Agreement is signed in Washington, DC. Secretary of State Hull signs for the US and Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov signs for the USSR.

ATLANTIC OCEAN: Off the U.S. coast German submarines sink three merchant vessels:

- U-157 sinks a U.S. armed tanker and a U.S. unarmed freighter off Cuba

- U-68 sinks a British motor vessel in the Caribbean.