The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-17
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SIMLA, India INS-British and |
Russian troops converged on the
Iranian capital OF Teheran today
: but refrained temporarily from
entering the city to await develop
ments. The Anglo-Russian forces
marched on Teheran yesterday
when Shah Ria Khan Pahleyi alb
dicated the throne in favor of mis-
son, Mohammed Ria Pahlevi.
? BCENOS ,Aires-UP-Raul Da-
monte Taborda, chairman OF Argen-
tinas "Dies committee. cited fig-
ures today TO prove the inseparabi-
lily Of private" German organiza-
tons and the German government.
Taborda stressed that German
propaganda is derived directly,
textually and financially from the
= Reich.
LONDON-INS- British bomb
ers hammered targets in Ger
many's Rhlneland districts last
night and early today while NaZi
raiders carried out minor attacks
on eastern England. An air miu-
lstry communiQue said a few Ger
man planes flew inland over Btt
tain. chiefly over eastern areas, and
dropped bombs on a few points
without causing damage or casual
ties.
MANILA-AP japanese control
OF French Indo-China has reached
a point where the French colony
is we'll on the road to becoming a
Japanese preserve, according 10
travellers arriving here.
ST. LOUIS-UP-An anti-admin-
istration bloc in the International
Hold Carriers, Building and Com.
, mon Laborers Union, AFL, To-Day
prepared for a final fight to GUST the
nine-man slate of officers headed
by Joseph V. Moreschi in a roll
call election scheduled today AT
the unions first convention in 30
years.
LONDON-UP-Commanders of
British and Russian troops now adj
vancing on Tehran will meet to
decide whether they will enter the
Iranian (Persian) capital or re-
main in the suburbs so long as
quiet prevails. authoritative British
quarters said today.
BERLIN-UP-The German high
command said today that German
submarines operating in the North
Atlantic had sunk six enemy mer-
chant ships totaling $1,000 tons.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, Ger
man railway shop center of 5000
population. was said by authorize
tive sources to have been a major
target in British bombing of objec
tiyes in western Germany over
night. Karlsruhe is in the Rhine
land about so miles south of often
bombed Frankfurt.
TOKYO-AP-The misleading OF
a signal by the engineer of an ex-
press train was given today as the
cause for one OF the most disastrous
railway accidents in Japanese his
toEy The revised casualty toll of
the accident, which occurred Tues
day was GO dead and 81 injured.
BCENOS ttftf7S-zA4fP Pr he A.
gentine foreign ministry advised
German Ambassador Edmund Won
Hermann today it could not take
any action on his protests against
allegsdly SURFING remarks made
curing a congressional debate on
charges that he had abused his dip |
lomatic privileges. The ministry |
said the officials to whom the re- |
marks were attributed were pro
tected by privileges inherent in
their posts.
ROME-AP-The Italian high |
command reported today that Fas-
cist outposts had repealed British |
forces in scouting operations in |
North Africa and Ethiopia. The |
daily war bulletin, which was I'M
usually brief, also reported that
Axis planes had attacked British |
motorized columns near the Libysn |
Gases, Of Giarabub and silva.
BERN, Switzerland-AP- DNB |
reported a violent earthquake In |
Asia Minor today. The temblor |
'started at 436 a. m, DNB said in a
Belgrade dispatch, with shocks re-
curing at eight-second intervals
for u minutes.
PARIS-AP-A German non-com-
missioned officer died today of bull |
let wounds inflicted Monday by an
unidentified assailant in defiance
OF wholesale Nazi reprisals in |
which 10 French hostages were
executed for previous attacks on
members OF the army of occupa-
ton. The soldier was the second
reported slain in Paris within d
few weeks.
PARIS, Occupied France-AP -
Paris police pressed a city-wide
search today for the persons who
Kidnapped a son of Col. Herteaux,
vice president OF the expanded /
Veterans Legion, which now Is
the official political party of the
Vichy regime.
NEW YORK AP-Vice Presi-
dent Henry A. Wallace says that