General Carton de Wiart, head of British forces in Norway, has ordered a fighting retreat to ports ready for evacuation; he says Allied troops are 'sitting out like rabbits in the snow'.

This week's German humour magazine Lustige Blätter celebrates the U-boat blockade of Britain- poor hungry Churchill, British First Lord of the Admiralty, is denied his supper.

Supreme Allied War Council- as yet ignorant of continual retreat of British & French troops in Norway- claiming Germany 'overstretched' & 'near collapse'.

Milch, a founder of Lufthansa, has a Jewish father & was almost arrested by Gestapo. His friend Göring has saved him by declaring: 'I decide who is a Jew.'

German General Erhard Milch is addressing Luftwaffe pilots in Norway. German planes have dominated the air so far.

New British budget announced: higher income tax, increased duty on alcohol, tobacco & matches, to raise an unprecedented £2 billion for war costs.

Luckily, one of the British officers, Lt. Col. Hibbert, spent his childhood summer holidays in Norway. He remembers a small wooden bridge across river Ogna, not marked on maps, that leads British out of German encirclement.

In a daring amphibious landing on the Norwegian coast, German troops have captured the only major bridge over the river Ogna, trapping over 700 British troops in southern Norway.

British troops have captured German paratroopers in Norway, & discovered the equipment air-dropped with them included collapsible bicycles, welding gear & portable radios.

British are retreating in Norway: King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry fall back from Lillehammer in total darkness, afraid of German bombers seeing a light. They're holding hands to stay together.

Bill & Augusta met in her father's café after the army truck her was driving broke down; neither speaks the others' language, so Bill courted (& proposed) with the aid of a pocket dictionary.

Bill Hersey is the first British soldier stationed in France to be given a permanent sleeping-out pass; today he marries a local French girl, Augusta Six.

Retreating British troops in Norway hiding from Luftwaffe in a railway tunnel. 1 officer: '700 of us & a bloody train- we're almost suffocating.'

Anglo-French 'Sickleforce' in Norway, landed to north & south of Trondheim to catch Germans in a pincer movement, has ground to a halt- British forced to retreat in south from superior German tanks & air support.

Nazi occupiers of Poland have sealed the Jewish ghetto in Łódź: Germans & Poles may not enter. Jewish residents hope new ban will end random attacks by Nazis.

Norwegian town of Steinkjer has paid dearly for quartering Allied troops: German bombers have destroyed 95% of it. 1,800 civilians homeless.

At the order of the Nazi occupiers, the Danish army has been disbanded; its weapons are to be seized for German use.

To pass time while stationed in peaceful France, troops of the British Expeditionary Force watch a Punjabi dance from Indian mule-handlers, attached to British army as an Animal Transport Company.

Captain Robert Losey, American military attaché in Norway, has been killed by a German bomb while evacuating US diplomats. He is the 1st US serviceman to be killed in the European war.

A British tribunal has ruled that expectant fathers may delay military service due to 'potential nervous strain' on the mother-to-be.