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ARMISTICE MIXUP
Dentz Ignores Beirut Hint: Battle Goes On
THE OFFICIAL ITALIAN NEWS AGENCY REPORTED FROM VICHY LAST NIGHT THAT THE VICHY GOVERNMENT HAD DE- CIDED TO RESPECT THE BRITISH TERMS FOR AN ARMISTICE IN · SYRIA.
No confirmation is so far available from any other source but the German-controlled Paris radio, after giving a list of the alleged terms, added: "We do not yet know what decision the Government has made but every- thing leads us to believe that such dictation cannot be accepted."
In Jerusalem last evening it was stated there was still no reply from General Dentz to General Wilson's broadcast urging him to evacuate Beirut.
The Imperial troops which are in the face of our pressure,
In the central sector local ad- now pressing forward after their victory at Damour are meeting vances again have been made. On with a fair amount of opposition the coastal sector, the advance of in front of Beirut, and the Vichy Australian troops towards Beirut air force is bombing the positions is progressing. taken at Damour.
With the capture of the town of EVIDENTLY GENERAL Damour many hundreds of Vichy with DENTZ INTENDS TO IGNORE troups were taken together GENERAL WILSON'S APPEAL, 17 guns, three tanks and five arm-
Qured cars." AS HE DID AT DAMASCUS.
Beirut is now covered with a thick pall of black smoke from a ahip hit in the harbour by the R.A.F.
Raqqa Captured
A competent military authority
QUISLING GRUMBLES
"There have been only some 1,000 Dutch volunteers to fight against Soviet Russia" complained the Dutch Quisling, Heer Mussert, accord- ing to reports reach- ing Lisbon.
Mussert also declar- ed that Germany had attacked Russia be- "Russia's corn- cause fields must be opened to the whole of
in London stated yesterday the 100 The military spokesman at Gen-¦ Allied troops in Syria had reach-
Wilson's Pral
headquarters ined Ragga Jerusalem disclosed yesterday that as far as is known at present abou 700 prisoners were captured Damour.
Damascus Road
at
Meanwhile there is a determin- ed effort to end the stalemate on
The forces which captured now established Palmyra have
with those forces which contact have reached Es Sukhue and Delr ez Zor coming from Iraq, so that the whole of Syria east of these towns is controlled by the Allied forces.
On the coastal road our troops
the Damascus-Beirut road, where have advanced into the outskirts Vichy artillery is based on the of Beirut.-British Wireless. commanding Jebel
and the main road.
Mazar Ridge
It is stated in Jerusalem that by noon yesterday all objectives had been gained except on extreme right flank.
the!
With the prospect of the early elimination of the Vichy artillery positions on the Mazar Ridge, the threat to Beirut from the east is intensified.
German
Humour?
Europe."-Reuter.
UNHAPPY MINOR
WAR
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While no statement is yet available of the armis- tice terms to be placed before General Dentz, Vichy High Commissioner in Syria, relief is natural- ly felt in Britain at the possibility of an early
While the Allies are closing in
"A nasty surprise for cessation of what "The on Beirut, progress is also being made
was the Times" describes as "this in the far north-east of the Japanese,” Syria.
Moscow radio an.unhappy minor war." Indian troops which entered the country
Iraq from
have
comment on now nouncer's
Relief is of a twofold kind. The reached Kamechli, adjoining the
latest
says "The campaign, Germany's
pro-Syrian
Times." "has already cost the Em-
Istanbul-Baghdad railway, having
captured Demir Kapou on the paganda film meant to pire between one thousand and fil-
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Pressure Maintained
At the extreme south end of Syria, in the Jezzine sector, steady pressure on the Vichy troops has been maintained and the Alies have reached Beikoum (five miles north of Jezzine) and Mazratt ez Chouf.
illustrate the operations teen hundred casualties and these losses do not apparently include against the Red Army. those suffered by the Free French.
The film purports to depict "atrocities" of the Soviet Air "The figures are smail.by com- Force against "defenceless popula-parison with those of the great tions," but the Moscow radio campaigns but they are woefully announcer pointed out that the large for one waged against forces "picture could immediately be re- of a former ally, against men who cognised by anyone who knows inspire us with no hostile feelings the region as being pictures taken however, much we may...con- during the bombing of Kansu by demn the policy of those who the Japanese fleet air arm.
made our action necessary, against
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"Details of the landscape and men whom only the backwash of The Allies are shelling Vichy of the operations carried out leave the Nazi attack upon civilisation troops at Daadrane, 2-1/2 miles no doubt as to the origin of the has made our enemies for a time." north-east of Belkoum, where | film.”—Reuter.
the Vichy forces are reported to be in some strength.
Pressure is also being maintain- ed in the Mer) Ayoum sector in. the direction of Hasbaya, where the Allies have captured the. vil- lage of Kafr Chebar.
Vichy Statement...
No reply to General Dentz's re- quests for the suspension of hostilities has yet reached Beirut,
ANOTHER BEIRUT WARNING
a Vichy communique stated last night, and fighting in Syria there-leaflets fore continues.-Reuter.
A similar opinion is expressed in the "Daily Telegraph" which, dealing with the announcement of a formal application by Dentz, says: "No announcement could be more grateful to this country, for the thought that the French and British armies were fighting no longer side by side but against one another was. as repugnant as the thought of internecine war.
Unnatural Antagonism
"Only the sternestnecessity could compel acceptance of such anunnatural antagonism. -⠀⠀
British 'planes dropped yesterday OD Beirut, demanding that it be declared an·· open With reference to a statement town and occupied by Bri- well how to express the general put out by Lyons radio at 1:30 tish forces.
Lyons Reports
Mr. Churchill, who knows so
feeling of the House and nation,
p.m: yesterday, to the effect that he demand was in the form of said just what needed to be s'd
no reply had yet been received T
to General Dentz's request for an ultimatum, according to the of this distressing an armistice, it is pointed out official Vichy news agency..
in London that an immediate reply was given stating our terms. Until such time as General Dentz accepts these terms our forces would naturally continue the fight.
It had nothing to do" with the negotiations for cessation of hostilities for which the United States consulate in noting ma Intermediary..
a clear
story of the Syrian campaign "that come 1,500. British, Austrass llan and Indian soldiers, who volunteered to join. the army in order to defend Franco, should: hava tal on killed or wounded" under French bullets.
Admiral Darlan, who returned ta: Vichy from the occupied zone!
"No wonder the British Govern- ・ Cairo CommuniqueTM yesterday, conferred with Mar-
Ahai Petain in the morning about ment welcome the negotiations, A Cairo communique stafes Syrin and his talks in Paris, which have been asked for and it' Vichy troops holding outlying He also conferred about Syrin is to be hoped they may reach a areas covering Aleppo and Homs with the Vichy Defence Minister, speedy conclusion, British Wire-
Icas. are continuing their withdrawal General Huntzigor-Reuter,