Algiers, July 6.
More than 1,000 French officers and sailors were listed as dead, wounded or missing today as the sea. battle. between a section of the French Fleet and the British Navy continued, Official French reports from Oran said that three French battleships and a light cruiser had been badly Gamaged and driven aground there. The lost battleships are the Dunker= que, Bretagne and Provence. The Hight cruiser is" the Mogador. A is smaller vessel had its back torn off and was run aground, the report said, Olt Cape Matifou, in the Algiers rection, a French atrol boat was @estroyed by gunfire or struck mine. Almost all members of the crew were rescued from this ship, official quarters sald—United Press.
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