Churchill To
Address Commons
On Syrian Issue
LONDON, June 4 — (>P)— The
Daily Mail said Winston Churchill
will make a statement to Com
mons this week “defining in the
clearest terms” the attitude of
the British Government on the sit
uation in Syria and Damascus.
Dispatches indicated that affairs
in Levant are still in a critical
state. British troops are kept con
stantly on the alert, protecting the
French and their barracks. De
Gaulle’s proposal for an interna
tional conference to settle all the
Arab problems appeared to have
done little to ease the British
French tension.
.
The London press chorused a
protest over the DeGaulle charge
that British agents fomented agi
tation against France’s Levanine
interests. The British Foreign Of
fice has thus far declined to make
any comment on DeGaulle’s pro-1
Yanks Attack
Kyushu Airfield
Second Day
•
GUAM, June 4—(>P)—Striking
again at bases from which Japan
ese might launch kamikaze (sui
cide) aerial attacks on his own
force, Admiral Halsey attacked
southern Kyushu airfields with
carrier planes for the second suc
cessive day yesterday.
Pilots of Vice-Admiral McCain’s
Third Fleet Carrier task force
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posal. The press however sharply
criticized the suggestion. The
Daily Telegraph said the state
ment deserved “severe censure,”
adding the French chief should <
realize the disorders in Levant are •
“quite as dangerous to British in
terests as those of France.”
French troops and their families
are under British protection. The
Syrian towns are being evacuated
a Damascus dispatch said last
night.
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American Laagua
! Cleveland 2, New York 9. De
troit 4, Boston 6. St. Louis 4, Phil
adelphia 0. Chicago 11, Washing
ton 9.
National Laagua
Philadelphia 5, Pittsburgh 6.
Boston-Chicago game called end
of fourth inning on account of
wet grounds. Brooklyn 3, Cincin
nati 6. New York 3, St. Louis 4.
Pacific Coast Laagua
Portland 5, Seattle 0. Sacramen
to 5, San Diego 0. Hollywood 2,
Los Angeles 9. Oakland 2, San
Francisco 5.
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American Laagua
Detroit 1, Boston 5. Chicago 1,
Washington 8. St. Louis 9. Phila-1
delphia 0. Cleveland 4, New York 1
0. ,
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National League
Brooklyn at Cincinnati game '
postponed. Philadelphia 6, Pitts
burgh 7. Boston 5, Chicago 4, ten
innings. New York 3, S. Louis 2.
Pacific Coast League
Hollywood 8, Los Angeles 9. j
Oakland 6, San Francisco 5. Port
land 4, Seattle 5. Sacramento 9, j
San Diego 3.
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American League
Cleveland 2, 4; New York 8, 1.
St. Louis 1, 0; Philadelphia 3, 0. j
Detroit 3, 4; Boston 4. 3. Chicago
1, 5; Washington 3, 1.
National League
New York 3, 2; St. Louis 11, 8.
Boston 2, 1; Chicago 1, 3. Brook
lyn 2, 1; Cincinnati 6, 2. Philadel
phia 0, 11; Pittsburgh 1, 9.
Pacific Coast League
✓Sacramento 3 3; San Diego 4, 4. j
Oakland 2, 2; San Francisco 7, 0.;
Seattle 2, 2; Portland 1, 5. Holly
wood 3, 0; Los Angeles 4, 7.
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YANKS ATTACK
again found pickings lean; de
stroying nine Japanese planes.
The two day total is 22 destroyed
and 23 damaged.
t
Seventh-Army Infantrymen ef
fectively cut off the isolated Chi
nen peninsula on southeastern
Okinawa yesterday, scoring wide
spread advances against crumbling
Japanese defenses, Admiral Nim
itz reported.
The Hundred Eighty-Fourth In
fantry regiment of Maj. Gen. Ar
nold’s veteran Seventh reached
the third mile of Okinawa’s south
eastern coastline in a rapid two
mile sweep at the base of the Chi
nen peninsula.
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E. Clark, 83, Hamilton banker, ^
collects biographies of the com
munity’s residents. He now is
working on his seventh volume.
PACODA VIEW OF M A N I L A _c.pt. e. n. whii
Ing, Jr., of Brooklyn, looks out over the burned and ruined busi
ness district of Manila from the Chinese pagoda tower.
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