The Kamakura Maru and Tatuta Maru put in at Lourenco Marquest, Portuguese East Africa (Mozambique) with Allied embassy staff and civilians to be exchanged with the same from Japan, which were arriving by ship from the United Kingdom and Australia.
The Kamakura Maru.
The Japanese attempted but failed to resupply their forces at Milne Bay. Australian forces held their lines at Isurava on Papua.
The German battleship Admiral Scheer shelled Soviet military installations on Dikson Island in the Kara Sea, damaging two Soviet freighters in port there.
