Battle of the Atlantic

• The German freighter Idarwila is sunk by the British light cruiser Diomede off the coast of the United States.
• The British steamer Rubislaw hits a mine and sinks 1-1/2 miles ENE of Tongue Light Vessel with the loss of 13 crewmen. This is the result of the German destroyer minelaying operation in the Thames Estuary the night of the 12th. The survivors are rescued up by a minesweeping trawler.

Diplomatic Relations

Protesting violently that Russian troops in the Leningrad sector have been fired on by the Finns, the Soviet government renounces the Soviet-Finnish Non-Aggression Pact signed between the two countries in 1932. Helsinki of course denies that anything of the kind has occurred, but the Russians blow it up into their causus belli.