The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-30


range guns mounted along the &C.
cupied French coast opened fire
across the Dover Strait before dawn
today British reports said there
were no casualties or damage.
LONDON-INS-"Very heavy"
japanese troop movements north
ward from Tientsin we're reported
in a Reuters (Briush) dispatch
from Shanghai today.
ALEXANDRIA. Egypt -AP -
British naval officers said today
they believed the crack 35,000-ton
Italian battleship Vittorio Veneto.
torpedoed March % in the battle
of Matapan, now was undergoing
repairs at an Italian naval base.
NORTHUMBERLAND Uru-
guayan Chamber of Deputies voted
early today TO suspend Deputy
Alexandra Kayel because OF attacks
directed against the government by
the pro-Nazi newspaper Libertad,
of which he Is editor.
SAIGON. French Indo-China -
AP-Preceded by a destroyer, IA
Japanese naval vessels loaded with
$4,000 troops slipped into Saigon
harbor at dawn today as the Japan
csc extended their occupation Of
southern Indo-China bases.
Ia
mand that the government take -ac-
ton to bring ashore his daughter
and her husband and other Ameri-
cans held practically as hostages
by Japan" aboard the liner Tatuta
Maru was made by Frank Kirch-
hof. Denver banker.
ROME-AP - The Italian high
command reported today that Fas-
cist .warplanes had bombed docks
and supply dumps at Larnaca on
the British island of Cypdus in the
eastern Mediterranean starting
large fires.
BUENOS AIRES-AP-The Ger
man embassy left with observers
today the impression II does not
consider closed an incident involv-
ing seizure of a radio transmitter
In three diplomatic pouches by an
Argentine congressional committee.
TORONTO, Ont.-AP-A resolu-
ton demanding removal OF Prime
Minister w. L. Mackenzie Kings
government was adopted last night
at meeting sponsored by Cana
dian war veterans organization af-
ter speakers had assailed the ad-
ministration's war effort as made
quate and inefficient.
ROME-AP-Strong British pa
trolls, attempting a foray from the
besieged Libyan port OF Tobruk,
were beaten back with consider
able losses Tuesday when they ap-
preached Italian lines, the Fascist
high command declared today.
LONDON-AP-Cri Of Prime
Minister Churchill resumed their
demands for a production minister
today. undaunted by his Commute
speech which pictured the British
war effort as continuing steadily.
LONDON-AP-Harry Hopkins,
coordinator OF the American aid.to-
Britain program, has left for Mos
COW. and Exchange Telegraph,
British news agency, said he alrea-
dy had arrived at the Russian
capital.
TOKYO-UP- Raw silk and silk
fibers were put under an export
licensing system today as a fur
Their retaliation against the Amer
lean asset freezing order, and 1t
was understood that the question
of permitting silk exports would
be determined by the future moves
of the United States against Jap
anese trade.
LONDON up Great Britain
has decided to withdraw from all
Japanese ships the right to use
British coaling stations and to
carry goods from one port in the
British empire to another, 1t was
said authoritatively today.
HAVANA-UP- President Full.
gencia Batista disclosed today that
a declaration of a state OF nation
a, emergency is being prepared
by the government.
ARVIDA, Que.-UP- The Cana
dian army. using tanks and barbed
wire, guarded the s150.000. 900 plant
II the Aluminium Company Of Can
ada today while officials OF the
National Catholic Syndicate OF
Aluminium Workers denied that the
ZOO men whn-forced the plant to
close last week had been motivat.
ed by a desire to sabotage Cana.
da's war effort.
LONDON ms Two British
newspapers. the London Daily
Telegraph and Daily Sketch today
published reports that German
Air General Ernst Udet, famous
German aviator and creator Of the
MAIL parachute troops. has COM
mitted suicide. The reports said
3 Udet took his life after Chancell.
or Hitler ordered him arrested
because he opposed the German
invasion OF Russia.
LONDON ms British su.
thorities declared today there. 4.
no truth In rumors that 10000
Americans soldiers already are II
Egypt. The only American ser.
vice personnel in Egypt are a few