In Egypt… The Cabinet resigns after a dispute with King Farouk regarding his pro-Axis sympathies.

In the Dutch East Indies… Japanese forces overcome Dutch and Australian forces on Amboina Island.

In London… The British Naval Staff reports that the German battlecruisers Gneisenau and Scharnhorst will probably attempt to leave Brest, in occupied France, and pass up the English Channel through the Straits of Dover.