Diary for Sunday, December 1, 1940:
Sea War
Armed merchant cruiser Forfar (16,400 t) sunk by U-99 west of Ireland. Free-Norwegian liner Oslofjord (18,700 t) and a British tanker mined and sunk off the Tyne in North Sea.
Home Fronts
Italy: Rationing of flour, rice, spaghetti and macaroni.