Detroit, July 9.
The Packard Motor Company yesterday" relected 9 proposed project under which the com-any" would have. constracted 3.000 Rolls Royce aeroplane motors forthe United. States trid 6900 for Britain.
The company issued 9 statement declaring, that "Packard desires to be of public service al was hopeful that an agree= ment ould be reached, Dut many, matters require further there i no reason to gloss over these feelings, and 1 must. express. them "Therefore, speaking to the British, 1 ask them to spare. us and them: selves from any interpretation of thi Tragedy ax a direct naval success. It would be rather unfair. The French ships at Oran were, in fact, incapable Of fighting. They were at their moornus, unable to manoeuvre or scatter. They gave to the British ships. the advantage of the frst salvoes, which, fas everyone knows, are decisive al Sen at such a short range. Their de-Struction Is nol the result of a fight. This is what a French soldier tells his British Allies all the more clearly as tye respects them in naval matters.
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