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CHINA MAIL
FIRST NEWSPAPER IN THE FAR EAST ESTABLISHED 1845.
No. 32,169
TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1941
Price: 10 oTS.
FIRST
INSIST ON
Daisy Brand
Australia's Choicest
BUTTER
BRITISH BLITZ SWEEPS ON Swift Closing In
In On
On Damascus
THE NAVY KEEPING WATCH
FRENCH TROOPS GO OVER TO
GEN. DE GAULLE
number The British Navy is keeping a close watch to
ensure that the Germans do not tow any small craft from the Dodecanese Islands to Syria.
The Germans in Ankara pect the British Navy to. forces on the Syrian const
work.
ex-
land but
naval activis
Sellers of were, besieged for develo Ein Syria have Brouse, warem qus interest Turkey
afternoon papers
by eager buyers,
int
TM Allied, move is widely welcomed and it is hoped that, the Allies will be able to settle the matter quickly.
It is generally considered that the Allies will do their utmost to avoid bloodshed, and well- informed people think that the "British will meet with little opposition for the French troops in Syria are divided among themselves and their morale low.-Reuter.
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derob
A considerable of French officers and men have already come over to the side of the ad- vancing Free French and Imperial troops and a number others have ceased to fight.
of
The military spokes- - man in Jerusalem, re- vealed yesterday that
Drive Penetrates 70 Miles Inland
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BRITISH, IMPERIAL AND FREE FRENCH TROOPS, AUGMENT- -ED BY CONSIDERABLE FORCES OF VICHY SOLDIERS WHO HAVE GONE OVER TO GENERAL DE GAULLE, ARE PUSHING DEEPER INTO SYRIA AND LEBANON IN THE BLITZ OFFEN- SIVE LAUNCHED BEFORE DAWN ON SUNDAY TO QUICKLY OCCUPY THE WHOLE OF THE FRENCH-MANDATED TERRI- TORY AND SNATCH IT FROM THE GERMANS GRASP,
Encountering little if any resistance,
several Allied columns, supported by R.A.F ITALIANS
n-Damastus, the
losing
Beirut, ‹ the capital's port regarded since Sunday the ad-probable within a few hours
General Wilson's British and Free French vance has proceeded to an average depth of 35 to 40 miles.
Only scattered cen- tres of resistance were encountered and the number of British casualties is negligi- ble.-Reuter.
POPULACE
Vichy LEAVING ALEXANDRIA Admits
the
Women and even small babies are riding on roof-tops of trains, great is the pressure of the Arab
leave Ala
result
Spec to be.
tion to
mulation
raids. have
Snags
Forces are understood to have seized control of almost the entire 24,000-square mile Jebel Druse mountain area, and British occupation of Syria within a few days with little if any major opposition is authoritatively predicted.
LOSSES
Italian General Head-
quarters in Rome yester- day issued the following list of "confirmed losses for the month of May.
On the Greco-Albanian and AJ- banian-Yugoslav fronts 1,480 were killed, 4:123 wounded and 223 missing. On the Italo-Yugoslav 14. were killed, and 24
At some points the Allied ad-Damascus, converge on that city
London—most important centre in Syria.fronts vance, according to the "Daily Express," has reached :70
Sheikh-Miskine is half way be wounded. miles into Syria, and one coʻunt"
ascus.
2
has driven 30 miles along the road tween them, and Tyre is about 30 In North Africa, 329 were kill from the Jebel Druse area to Dam- to 35 miles from Beirut, with the ed, 752 wounded and 23,919 miss- Litani River some 10 miles to the ing. In East Africa 88 were kill- ed: 77 wounded' and 2,354 miss- ing. The progress of the British en-nortti.
KeralaIn the naval forces 38 were try into Syria by the coast road
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF killed, 187 wounded and 3,030 from Tyre and beyond the gene
INTER missing, and in the Air Forces, 79 eral line inland was announced by GERMAN ACTION.
a communique from British Mid-NATIONAL NEWS AND REU-were killed, 41 wounded and 493 dle East General Headquarters last TER.
evening.
missing-Reuter.
River Litani Crossed THAT'S THE LAB.
The communique states: "Pene tration by the Allied forces. into Syria is progressing. By this morn- ing they were beyond Tyre and later effected the crossing of the
River Litani,
"On the right they have ad- vanced beyond Liszra Sheikh- Miskine Quinetra...
The Vichy News Agency states that the Allied Forces are advancing into Syria from three direc tions: Two columns are The advance northward of our forces, consisting of mechanised converging on Damascus British, Free French, Austr trough Dera and Safed, and Indians, is progressin
cording to messages rEGI
the third is following Cairo,
the coast road to Beirut.
admitted that the
dvance has reached the iver! Hants north of
referring *"against the
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ans
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