Some 31 first class football matches are held as friendlies, on an amateur basis. Peterborough pulled off the upset of the day beating Nottingham Forest 4-3, the Halifax - Leeds game though, was described as at a level 'usually associated with the village green.'
SCOTLAND: The US freighter SS Shickshinny is detained by British authorities
at Glasgow. (Jack McKillop)
Submarine HMS Triad commissioned. (Dave Shirlaw)
EIRE: The Ministry of Supplies is established under Sean Lemass. Rationing of foodstuffs and essential raw materials is introduced a shortly thereafter. The supplies of petroleum products, coal and gas averaged less than 20% of normal, textiles 22%, and tea 25%. The British restrict shipping as part of a campaign to persuade Eire to support the Allies throughout the war. The restrictions tighten under British Prime Minister Winston Churchill who was enraged by Irish Prime Minister Eamon de Valera’s refusal to return the Treaty Ports to British control, i.e., the three Irish ports that the British had returned to Irish control in 1938 . (Jack McKillop)
POLAND: Warsaw: On the eve of the Jewish New Year, Luftwaffe aircraft dive-bomb the Jewish quarter. The besieged defenders today spurned a German demand for their surrunder. Well positioned in powerful fortifications, Major-General Czuma's men have already fought off one determined attack by General Reinhardt's tanks. In a battle lasting three hours the Poles inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans, knocking out 60 tanks and forcing Reinhardt to report that if ordered to continue the attack his 4th Panzer Division will not remain operational. Reinhardt then withdrew to his original positions. When ordered to attack again, replied that it was impossible. The German's though are concentrating on the Battle of the Bzura on their right flank.
Brest: Today's attack on the citadel by the German 20th motorized and 10th Panzer Divisions falters after they storm the encircling wall, but the infantry regiment of the 10th Pz. div fails to advance, as ordered, immediately behind the creeping barrage that the artillery was putting down. When the regiment did at last attack it was too late and without orders, it suffered heavy casualties without reaching its objective. (95)(Russ Folsom)
GERMANY: The US Naval Attache in Berlin advises Washington that Admiral Erich Raeder, Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy, states that all German U-boat commanders deny sinking the British passenger liner RMS Athenia on 4 September. (Jack McKillop)
U-95 and U-96 laid down. (Dave Shirlaw)
ATLANTIC OCEAN: Liverpool-out convoy OB4 is the first to be attacked, and U-31 under Kptlt. Habekost sinks British merchant steamer Aviemore (4,060 ton). (Jack McKillop)
U-13 damages the SS City of Paris.
U-27 sinks the SS Rudyard Kipling.
U-33 sinks SS Arkleside. (Dave Shirlaw)
U.S.A.: An order for 300 Vultee Model 54 aircraft powered by an R-985-25 engine is placed. (Jack McKillop)
CANADA: The Foreign Exchange Control Board pegs the value of the Canadian Dollar at 90 cents US and a Pound Sterling at $4.34 Canadian. (Jack McKillop)
Destroyers HMCS St Laurent and Saguenay departed Halifax as escort for Convoy HX-1, the first escorted ship convoy in formation to protect against German U-boat attacks.. (Dave Shirlaw)