In Occupied Poland… The first barricades are erected around the Jewish quarter in Warsaw.

In Occupied Czechoslovakia… Some 50,000 people are reportedly under arrest. Nazi authorities execute 3 more dissidents.

In London… First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, proposes mining the Rhine, between Strasbourg and the Lauter River, using mine-laying aircraft.

In China… The Nationalist government at Chungking orders a winter offensive against the Japanese.