IN FRANCE
LABOURITE IN CABINET.
(United Press Association—By Electrii
Telegraph —Copyright).
GRENOBLE, July 15. The President, Marshal Petain, has completed the French Cabinet by appointing M. Rene Bolin as Minister of ' Industrial ■ ‘Production and Labour. M. Bolin is the Assistant Secretary of the Confederation 'Generate du Travail.
FRENCH CRUISER DEPARTS. «
OTTAWA, July 15
The Canadian Navy Minister, Mr Angus MacDonald, commenting on German radio reports that the French cruiser “Emile Bertin” had escaped from Halifax harbour, made a statement that the “Evnile 'Bertin’’ left on June 21', while the French were still fighting and Avith the full knoAVledge of the Canadians.
FEELING IN FRANCE.
MADRID July 14
Mr Bullett, interviewed described the French reaction to the battle at Oran, as violent, because the people, trusting the GtVman armistice, had not suspected that such a happening was possible.
, A MIGHTY EXPLOSION. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) VICHY, July 15. “Lc Temps” describes a German air raid on Rennes on June 17, as the most severe of the war. Raiders blew up four trainloads of munitions. The explbsioti.s razed the surrounding quarter. Forty-two .hundred bodies were recovered from the debris.
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