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RITISH SEIZE FRENCH NAVY, SEA FIGHT RAGES OFF ALGERIA

IRONY OF WAR TURNS BRITISH AGAINST ALLY

Not a Capital French Ship Is In Nazis’ Hands, Says Admiral.

July 4 ironical

(U turn

LONDON, P.). In a griml the

warships thun

of European conflict, British their fury against French Western Mediterranean Kleet at Oran, Algeria, in an effort to subdue and seize it

lered

today the

hefore Germany. M

rn 1 confiscation Hy

Vice Adi commander Navy and

ILS niral Fmile of the Air Force British, announ that “no capital

Navy

free coO-0

is In German

try of Informatio! this morning heer to keep 11 fallen ally nan and alian hana:

‘I pledge allegiance - OF a 4 PE hed French arp: tothe flag of the United | ; amt States of America and rranesn, Fiok to the Republic which it stands; one Nation, with Liberty tie BI RIAT a

for all.”

Ain had forced

the nowert

hel out of Gel

h 1alties to 8

whose

fOr( ed the Fleet

tlhat 1t heen 0

110 ench

Wes comm

tion” Meadit ander refused

tern

Action ‘Still Proceeding’ thie time of the Min? nique, the action at

strve coMm-

Oran wa

f 4 > . ad A hp “ 08 : k mu

till pioc ceeding

Ont

Nothing engaged ensit the battle. The status of the Fi Easte Mediterranean Fleet at Alexandria, Egvpt, was not tioned but it was recalled that Eastern Fleet had placed ul British comma igned armistices wit Italy Nol French warsh Far East, and sessions in tl The Bri

1ad been

details we the

the bharest

Was sala

force or the Int

TIRAAL X3ta1r

been nd before h Ge

anytning

man. was sald ol ips on patrol in the around France's » Western Hemisphere thought of fighting between French warsl

neoled at th Arye alr Af

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ands of Indianapolis homes the first act for Independence Day was putting out the flag—a fitting substi. Wheaton, 15, of 3907 N. New Jersey St., a Boy Scout in Troops 21, did it at his home,

OITY'S DEFENSE 4th Clear, Cool and Silent M'NUTT STATUS SETUP CHECKED As Boys Keep Powder Dry now DOUBTFUL

‘Great Qutdoors’™ Calls One Mishap Reported.

By LEO DAUGHERTY Needs Fourth of Jul heh

TYNDALAN

British

land

Admn

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or firework Richard

were poo

lec! a Frencl agonizing {(

France command alissimo, as Britons

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in the gi

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COst

nd evidence 1d laree ot SAN 11

SOA in the wo hands Mussolini at

Pl State Politicians Disagree on

Possessed Whether Tax Settlement \Xis partners Will Affect Chances.

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out ol

Benito

tle

That New Picnickers.

State Law:

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of com m tonnage to Britam s The text of the ormat atement “Tt

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rmistice to a law thelr fleet to Pass

the hands

apon

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NAZIS LOST 400.000 MEN. BRITISH SAY

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upport

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tatement

weve m 0 Germany's PO 27.000

mmen claims dead betwee: aid that German wounded, excluding pris approximately 400.000 Secallin g th the German al ouncement specified approximateIv 10000 Germans Killed between May 10 and June 4 and 17,000 killed petween June and June British spokesman said thi most improbable ance between J clight. In the however, it was ‘claimed that prin h French Belgians inflicted heavy losses on

m m

Ost 10 and J killed oners

that in 1 May me George

takes

Eagle Creek Officer

and

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Mr. McN

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grabbed 1t anc startec

and flag

west

from them and Seme 1

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off AINE

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captam te on to anoint On the One survivor said the ship's doctor, wounded in the

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PLANE GARRIER REPORTED HIT

Berlin Claims England's Mustrious Is Vietim Of U.Boat. 4 1 Command said an 1

BERLIN, July High Germ: hoat had ‘ rrier a

complement

torpedo

complete ships In Fight

S1X ta Janes of 733

guns

length nal purpose 30 knots aft carriers previously by the Germans Courageous a the Glorious 22 500 tons I'he Courageous torpedoed early in war and nk recently in a

the German bat

need aire: were

1 ¢

he Glorious wa

naval battle

tleshin Scharnhoi

F.0,R, GIVES LIBRARY TITLE TOU, §. TODAY

Contains Record of Two Terms as President.

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to the

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which Raosevelt unit

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will house

of Roosgevelt’s personal papers: rom 1910 when 1 New York end of national tions. The

Government

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State Senate until the his administra ta the left f what administration ta Dutchess

transfer of title

today, however

answered the question o will

be th of Ih

end he

v hether will return

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seek

President

ounty next lary to accept

atus of an elder statesman or

0 succeed himself

CHAMPLAIN SINKING REPORTED IN BERLIN

U. P carried rom Geneva, Switzerland French

cank

BERLIN. Jul

newspapers today

stories

the laxury steamer davs ago

on the

several France

Champlain off La Rochelle Bay of Biscay Geneva La Rochelle newspaper

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ed the Dau-

the

stories qguot Petit that

as reporting

was reads to mportant cargo

occurred aboard

Champlam £0 America with hen an

Ww explosion

‘Foery Man for Himself o on Prison Ship’

he ntermee were h te

bully heef to us they he Intérmees

wolfing it down Guards seized it

even

take (hei

Members

hoard

10 teases ON

and crew had cut

let ¢

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Nn about 100 men m 1 the rest Mmternmeex

the Bri 1sh sacrificed

the calmly asking standing the Bridge givnever get away. The ship's in stood and =aluted turned sharply half way ove

It was about 7 a. m. (yester-

captain he was wm would

the leg

German |

reporting

3 SHIPS FIRED, ONE SUNK, NAZI AGENCY SAYS

German Fliers Bomb Island Fourth Suce cessive Davhight Attack: Rumania Shakes

Up Cabinet, Gets Pro-Nazi Leader,

BULLETIN LONDON, July 4 (1, P.).—Guns of the British Fleet blasted French warships {hat refused to surrender in North African waters, Prime Minister Winston Churchill told the House of (Commons today in disclosing that Britain had seized three French battleships, six cruisers, eight destrovers and many smaller vessels including the world’s

largest submarine, the Surcouf. He said that many French units which had heen unable to reach African ports had entered Plymouth Portsmouth about 10 davs ago and they taken over hv the British vesterday,

also naval

were

Ry UNITED PRESS

Determined keep the French Navy out of the hands

AXis

mto

of the the Britich

off

powers, Mediterranean battle fleet

went action today Oran, Algeria, and German re

ports indicated that the English were inflicting heavy

damage

Britain moved suddenly, seizing French warship in

British ports and handing an ultimatum to the admiral of

the tri-color naval units in the western Mediterranean, The

French rejected and the British opened fire,

Berlin reported that the battleship Bretagne had heen

lown up, that the battleships Dunkerque and Provence wera

in Ss and that the cruiser Mogador also wag afire,

azi air raiders, meanwhile, conducted their fourth cone

secutive daylight attack on Britain, while Rumania, mobilize

mg for an anticipated invasion W Hungary, formed a pro

Nazi cabinet in a last-minute attempt to stave off a new

territorial slash.

| Aiveraft Carrier Hit, Nazis Say |

that the 23.000-<ton

(German sources claimed

aircraft

carrier, llustrious, had heen hit a torpedo from a German

submarine

London expressed its “regrets” at having to take ace

tion against the French fleet N. B

leaders

The official German Newg Agency DD claimed that Aatilla

submarines

the battleship Strasbourg, five and 2a nume

her of torpedo boats and had succeeded 1a

breaking through the British into the Mediterranean

[he hattle, which began off Oran late vesterday

ta He

Sea ultimatum D. N.B

when the French refused a Britizh =ix-hou

surrender to their control, still wag in progress,

dicated.

1 Three Battleships in Action

The British flee! the French w= described

as consisting of

opposing as

three hattleghipg, one aircraft carrer, three cruisers and a light flatilla. Hite

any

Adolf SINK

of the Oran battle the French Government

(Continved

(Coincident with reports

ley gave permission (o

on Page Nine)

Today's War Moves

By 1.

ight,

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I. MASON

Capvi By United Prees)

Marshal Pelain's action in convening a National Assembly ta revise French Constitution shows how pressure of Nazi influences iz being to drag France within the totalitarian orbit. The Third Republic, formed as the result of France's defeat in the Franco=Prussian War, is now facing possible danger the consequence of Frances second capitulation to German:

the used

re eee en SERRE

French Revolution present, France has heen governed bv one reign of ory, one consulate Wo empires, two monarchies and| three republics Whether the onRnstantly changing state structore wil now find a new form republiCan in name hut parliamentary M1 facet avalts the ont= come of the de libevations of h e National

the time of the

the

From ro preparedness which led to the press ent disaster corruption, favorite ism), lack of cohesion and =upporg of private intévests against the wel fare of {he state aie charged bY the Armv against the politicians Marshal Petain, with the army ab his back. i= taking the Arst steps to subordinate the political parties By planning a revised constitution whieh will give the exeeutive de= partment of the Government a free hand in domestic and foreign policies. If he were not =o old, Petain would loom as "the Man of Horseback,” a personal dictater of the Napoleon type, which the Third Republic has always feared Fortunately for the Fiench democracy, hawevey, Petain's age of 83% makes it impossible for him to develop the energy necessary if a personal dictator, He can give directions and issue orders but he cannot take personal command as do Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin, Franee hag no other leaders in pe (Continued on Page

terror, one direct

non

Mr. Masyn

A<zembly

{ Marshal Petain and some of his | ministers are known to believe that parliamentary government along full demaeratie lines has broken down in France. The French Army | holds France's political inefficiency | 1esponsibie for the lack of Witary|