The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-11
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JERUSALEM - APP Planes OF
unidentified nationality attacked
Haifa Palestine oil port for the
third consecutive day early today.
observation-disclosures be-
tween employees and the man
aoement was reported in pro-
aress today In the "B" building
at the Ford Motor Company
Rouge plant. That particular
building houses 5000 en-
ployes working on the final as
sembly line. Ford officials ad-
mitted a dispute was in pro-
aress but said they were with
out authority to offer details.
NANKING - AP-Domei, Japan
csc news agency, said today the
Chinese central government at
Chungking had sent $4,000 troops
TO Burma and Malay under an
agreement with Britain and the
United States for joint defense OF
the Peninsula.
NEW ORLEANS. La. ms =
A Navy torpedo boat, said to be
capable of a 50-mile-an-hour speed
with a 10000 pond load, was o.
-dered TO New London. Conn, to-
day for final tests. The craft was
built by Higgins, Inc, of New Or
leans, and was given preliminary
tests before a Naval trial board
on Lake Ponchartrain near here.
No official report on its perform
Sance was made.
WASHINGTON ms Bri-
fish Amba ssador Lord Halifax to-
day said he expects TO return to
London sometime next month for
consultation with the British gov
-efnmeHtand then return 10 Wash
ington. Spiking reports that he
will resume a position in the Bri-
fish cabinet, Lord Halifax said he
was. merely going TO consult with
British officials. take a brief rest
and then come back to this coun-
try.
NICHY ms Admiral Pla-
ton. French colonial minister, an
nounced today that 500 civilians
and 200 French Senegalese sold
iers, blockaded at the French
Somaliland port of Djibouti, are
threatened with starvation.
SAN FRANCISCO-tP-Ger-
manys two most prominent and
presumably most valuable con
ul-generals in the United States
today were given permission, ne
gotiated through diplomatic
horse-trading, 10 sail for Japan
Sunday. Capt. Fritz Wiedemann
Nazi consul-general in san Fran
cisco. revealed that negotiation
IN Washington between the de
partment OF state and the German
embassy had resulted in the per
mission for him and Hans Borch
ers. New York consul-general, &c
sail for Tokyo on the japanese
liner 1aWata Aaru.
LONDON ms Ten of 2;
French warshtps. transports snt
auxiliaries loaded with troop!
which arrived at, the port OF Alex
andretta in Turkey failed to leave
within "a hours and have beer
interned, the London Eveninf
Standard reported from Anksri
today.
SIMLA, India,-AP-General ST
Archibald P. Wavell, former com
mander OF British forces in thu
middle east, arrived in India today
TO take command Of the British
armies there.
MOSCOW, -AP-Thirteen mem
bers of the Japanese Colony, in
GLIDING II members of the EN-
bassy staff, left Moscow by trail
today en- route to Tokyo.
ANKARA, Turkey, --AP- Tit
Vice Admiral commanding France
Syrian fleet and the crews OF /
French warships and armed aux
iliaries have been informed ate
fleeing Beirut, Lebanon, for thu
Turkish harbor of Alexandretta.
LONDON. -AP-Soviet Hussi
will release 100000 Polish rison
ers on the condition that Polsnt
make border concessions as wei
as guarantee that the freed mel
will fight against Germany, a re
liable source said today.
PARIS, German Occup'e
France. -"Bastille Day" tn
celebration of the birth of the form
er French Republic, will remain
legal holiday this July 18th. Du
German occupation authorize
have cancelled plans for a Frencl
parade.
BELFAST, Northern Ireisad,-Al
-Cahir Healy. Nationalist membe
of the Northern Ireland Parl'a
ment for South Fcrmanagh. vh
was interned from. 1922 TO 1872
because OF his nationalist sympa
thies. was arrested at his home i
Enniskillen by Belfast detective
toCay under defense OF the Realn
Regulations.
LIMA. Peru-INS- Reports iron
Quito and Guayaquil charged toda,
that German pilots. using plane
loaned by the German-owned Sedt
Airline. are transporting Ecus
dorean troops in large numbers I
the embattled Peruvian-Ecuador
oap frontier