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FIERCE BATTLES IN SYRIA
R.A.F. Supports Blitz Advance
BRITISH LAND IN LEBANON
An announcement that British warships landed a detachment of troops armed with Tommy-guns on the coast of Lebanon, south of Beirut, yesterday | morning, was made last night by the Vichy news agency.
The British naval forces, adds the agency, consisted of one battleship, two cruisers and five destroyers which had been pre-
PETAIN AND DARLAN IN A HUDDLE
Marshal Petain and Admiral Darlan hur- riedly conferred as soon as the news of the advance into Syria reached Vichy, states Rome Radio, quoted by Reuter from London this morning.
NEW PORT
viously seen cruising off Beirut. AT ANGOLA
British Attacking Along Main Road To Damascus
ALTHOUGH official CIRCLES IN CAIRO ARE AS YET RE- TICENT REGARDING THE PROGRESS OF THE BRITISH, IMPERIAL AND FREE FRENCH FORCES WHICH STARTED THE INVASION OF SYRIA AT 2 O'CLOCK ON SUNDAY MORNING, IT IS KNOWN THAT THE ADVANCE INTO THE TERRITORY IS PROCEEDING AND THAT FIERCË FIGHTING HAS OCCURRED, AND IS STILL RAGING, SOME 20 MILES FROM THE SYRIAN FRONTIER.
While Cairo announces that the Allied GALLANT troops advancing into Syria have made some
The agency asserts the troops
progress, it is not known in Cairo whether POLISH were "promptly taken prisoners." IT WAS ANNOUNCED IN
Latest position of the fight. LISBON YESTERDAY THAT A opposition has been encountered or what are
ing in Syria was given by the NEW PORT WHICH IS TO BE the reactions of the French in Syria, and DESTROYER
Vichy agency last night
"Strong motorised and armour-
ed detachments of British
CONSTRUCTED AT LUANDA,
CAPITAL OF ANGOLA, WILL authoritative Cairo circles are without any and BE ONE OF THE FINEST
de Gaullist troops, supported by ALONG THE WHOLE AFRICAN very definite news of the situation: artillery, are attempting to ad- COAST.
vance along the road leading The port will be built by Anglo- from the Syrian frontier to Dutch Engineering and Oil Works,
Damascus.
I.td.
"Our troops of all arms, whom The mole will be 330 this unprecedented attack has long and 180 yards wide not taken unawares, are bravely will accommodate ships of doing their duty."-Reuter. feet draught.-Reuter.
LIKELY LINE OF ALLIED ADVANCE
yards
THE PART PLAYED BY THE POLISH DESTROYER, PIORUN, IN THE OPERATIONS AGAINST THE BISMARCK, IS DESCRIB- ED. IN AN ADMIRALTY COM- MUNIQUE, ISSUED LAST NIGHT IN LONDON, AS “VERY GALLANT AND EFFICIENT.".
NazF The Piorun engaged the battleship in a "most spirited manner" after being the first in the destroyer force to spot, the enemy.
It is officially announced by R.A.F. Head- quarters in the Middle East, however, that and British fighters covering the Allied advance 33 into Syria have encountered no opposition.
Only actual news of fighting No Continuous-Front comes from Vichy, where Pe ain Government announce-1 THERE IS NO CONTINUOUS ment,. quoted by the German FRONT BUT THE ALLIES ARE· She sustained no damage radio, says the British troops in ATTEMPTING TO ADVANCE casualties although she came un- Syria are marching in a souther- IN SINGLE COLUMNS: AT
der heavy fire from the Bismarck." ly direction,
WIDELY SEPARATED POINTS. --Reuter.
(Continued on Page 16)
The announcement says flerce battles are going on in the moun- tains of Djebel Druse, just south of Suweida, which is about 20 miles from Syria's frontier with Transjordan and some 55 miles sou.h-south-east of Damascus.
THE LIKELY LINE of advance of the Bri- tish and Free French Forces in Syria is the most natural one along the coast road through Saida or Beirut, it was stated in Cairo that "strong motorised and yesterday.
says
On Road To Damascus
The Vichy news agency
armoured --detachments”, of Bri- tish and Free French troops, 'sup- ported by artillery, are encounter-
ascus.
It is known the French have some blocks ing resistance on the road to Dam- on the road but it is uncertain whether these are real military obstacles or merely traffic control blocks such as were well known to those travelling in France in wartime.
The French in Syria were 1 We Shall Have Them
deprived of many of their wea- pons by the Armistice. Commis- sion but it is known they have some fanks and armoured cars, ⠀⠀⠀ Important thing, however,
not armaments but the reaction of the population”, and: of the
General Dentz's headquarters ́are at Bejrut, and' the first communique from there Ah- nounces that the R.A.F. bombed the aerodroma at Mazze, near Damascus, yesterday, morning, "oausing damage but no casual- ties:**
and.
General de Gaulle's préclama“ The RA.F. have twice raided, tion: says: “Offices,>»«N.C.0.4 Beirut, setting fire to oil dumps, maidlers, mallors" and alrmën - of ¿ The French communique says the Levant, now is the hour to British troops attacked the retume, the fight for the libera: southern frontier of Syria &lon" of France,-
Lebanon from 3.45 yeste morning and "contact" was. have appointed General with our advance post Iyance has been followed Catroux representative and Com engaged the enemy in
Issue of a number of mander-in-Chief of French forces with the tasks assigned Levant; You hamely one trom in the
are, to Gaulle to the French obey his orders,
Levant, another from
vell to the fi. French This: time, we, shall: two from General them and France shall wi
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