The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-09-23

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cided 10 recall its diplomatic repre-
sentatiyes in Germany, Italy and
Rumania.
LONOON-UP-Soviet Am
bassador Ivan Masky appealed
to Britain and the United
States today to step Into the
breach and offset Russian pro-
duction losses, emphasizing
that Russia was fighting for the
freedom Of the whole world.
VICHY. Unoccupied France-AP
The Petain government borrowed
another 12,000.000.000 francs (now,
inally S276,000 000) from the Banque
de France today to pay for the up
keep OF the German army OF occupa-
ton. boosting the total obtained by
non-interest bearing loans for this
purpose to 1S0,000,oO0,O0t france
. (s2,990,000,000)
BANGKOK, Thailand- AP-The
Thai radio declared today the ma.
ton was but a single step short of
being involved in real war. as the
news OF forthcoming japanese army
maneuvers on the plains OF Cam
bodia. adjoining the Thailand from
tier, was regarded as ominous by
the Thai press.
VICHY - ms - Three more
Frenchmen have been executed in
reprisal for anti-German outbreaks
IN occupied France. according to an
official German military communi-
que today. Announcement of the.
new executions followed the SEN
fencing yesterday Of five men to
death by the new state court sitting
in Paris.
NEW YORK-INS-A German-ir-
spired radio station in Shanghai
XGRS-reported today in a broad
cast heard by NBC that the Palace
Synod of the Patriarch in lstanbul
had been destroyed by fire, killing
coo persons.
MONTREAL-UP-The Royal Air
Force ferry command said today
that there was little hope for three
men aboard a EUckheed Hudson
bomber missing over the North At
lantic. Flight Lieut. R. F. Leavitt
of Regina. Sask.. Sergeant Observ-
or Elwood W. McFall of Ottawa
and r. D. Anderson of Benjamin
River, y. B., were aboard the bomb
er.
BERLIN-INS- Execution by fir
ing squads of so Jews and Com
munists as puryey0rs of Communist
propaganda and a the intellectual
perpetrators of the recent bombing
of the telephone headquarters at
Zagreb was announced by the Croa-
tian Ministry Of Interior today.
WASHINGTON-INS-The White
House revealed today that Presi-
dent Roosevelt will make an ad-
dress Saturday when the L. S. Mari.
time Commission holds its great
mass launchings' of new merchant
cargo vessels.
w "a OIll NJ O4N 1 he MAIL
time Commission announced today
that it has allocated eight requisi-
toned foreign cargo ships to Amer
lean operators to sail on national
defense trade routes. The group of
vessels include four Italian vessels
which had been sabotaged in Amer
lean ports.
BERN, Switzerland-AP-Seven
or eight persons were killed and
Is injured today in a collision of
two passenger trains at Munsingen.
halfway between Bern and then
on one of the main lines between
Italy and Germany.
SHORTCOMINGS Evidently
preparing for the impending fall
OF Leningrad, the Russians are
blowing up war-important facilities
in the Soviet's second city, an eye
witness account said today. while
10 the west guns Of the great Red
naval base at Kronstadt have been
silenced.
TURKEY-AP- Belief that Bul.
garia might soon be drawn into the
German-Russian war increased
here today as advices from Sofia
told of new emergency measures
there and Of fresh German troop
concentrations in Bulgarian ports
perhaps for a Black Sea thrust
against Soviet oil fields in the eau
casus.
ROME - ms 90 Axis suicide
boats such as the torpedo craft
which yesterday raided Gibraltar
will attack any American shipping
which attempts to reach Britain.
Editor Virginia Gayda warned to-
day.
WASHINGTON-INS-The L. S.