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FIERCE FIGHTING IN SYRIA
AS ALLIED TROOPS ADVANCE First Encounters 25
Miles Inside Border
VICHY, JUNE 8 (REUTER), FIERCE BATTLES IN SYRIA ARE GOING ON IN THE MOUNTAINS OF DJEBEL DRUZ JUST SOUTH OF SUWEIDA, STATE THE FIRST DISPATCHES FROM THE COMMANDER OF THE VICHY TROOPS, GENERAL DENTZ. SUWEIDA IS ABOUT 20 MILES FROM SYRIA'S FRONTIER WITH TRANS-JORDAN AND SOME 55 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF DAMASCUS,
GENERAL DENTZ'S HEADQUARTERS ARE AT BEIRUT AND THE FIRST communique FROM THERE AN- NOUNCES THAT THE R.A.F. BOMBED THE AERODROME OF MEZZE, NEAR DAMASCUS, ON SUNDAY MORNING. CAUSING DAMAGE BUT NO CASUALTIES.
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ENEMY SHIPS BOMBED IN WEST & MIDDLE EAST
** LONDON, June 8 (Router)-The Air Ministry announced to-day further blows by the R.A.F. Bomber Command on Saturday in the three-months old daylight campaign against enemy shipping from Norway to the Mediterranean.
It was already announced that a convoy of supply ships off the Dutch const was nitacked during the morning and that two ships were set afire and probably destroyed. Other vessels In this convoy were damaged.
Fleet Leaves Gibraltar
Merchantmen Arrive
Later in the day, it is also disclosed, bomb and machine- gun attacks were again made on an escorted supply ship off the Norwegian coast and other vessels in a convey off the Dutch const.
VICHY, June 8 (Reuter).The A salvage ship lying beside a large
Blitz Over
Alexandria
British aircraft carriers, Ark Royal submerged wreck off Terschelling All Night Raid With плю Furious, the battle cruiser and surrounded by anti-aircraft ships Renown and the cruiser Shefeld, was bombed and set on fire. Two with flotillas of torpedo boats and British bombers were hotly engaged Aubmarines, left Gibraltar for the by German fighters on the way back. Mediterranean at dawn' this morning,One enemy fighter was damaged. xays a dispatch from Lalinen.
It is also reported from Lalinea that 10 merchant ships coming from the Mediterranean
anchored Gibraltar this morning.
at
Three Months": Record
British troops attacked the southern frontier of Syria and Lebanon from 3.45 a.m., the com. munique states, and "contact was made with our
Leads Troops
Into Syria
UFS
LIEUT-GEN. II. M. WILSON
advance posts which engaged them in accordance Wilson
with the tasks assigned to them."
ADVANCING ON DJEBEL DRUZ
LONDON, June 8- (Router) .-—--Allied forces in Syria are advancing in the direction of Djebel
In
Charge Of
Druz, according to a Vichy dispatch to the official Operations
German, news agency.
Twenty-five miles inside Syria, Djebol Druz is almost due south of Damascus, the scene of General Allenbury's triumph in the last war and cast of the Sea of Galilee.
FRENCH-BLOCK ROADS
Directing Allied Troops In Syria.
British Act Just In Time
Darlan's Trickery Nullified
CAIRO, June 8 (Reuter),- The move by the British and Free French to prevent the Germans assuming control of Syria and turning it into a battle-ground was taken in the nick of time as evidence was accumulating of growing Ger- man infiltration.
It is understood that General Dentz, the French High Com- missioner in Syria, was recently informed by Vichy that a Ger- man Mission would arrive at Aleppo about June 15 to take |over control and the administra-
tion of the Aleppo district.
The seriousness of such an action required no emphasis,
It was also learned that early In May
General Huntziger informed General Dentz that Admiral Dalan, In the course of his conversation with Hitler, had conceded air bases in
to the Germans Syria
and General Dentz was auked to report, for the information of the Disarmament Commission, whether this was likely to cause trouble in the Syrian Army, and if so, lo suggest how the post- tion could be overcome.
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is the most natural one along the coast road through Saida or Beirut,
It is known that the French have some. blocks 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 deprived of many of their weapons by the Armistice Commission, but it is known that they have some tanks and armoured cars.
LONDON, June 8 (Reuter). Using Dromes in Transit -General Sir Henry Maitland General Deniz suggested in reply Wilson, General Officer Com-that the aerodrome should be used manding in Palestine, is In by the Germans in transit. charge of the whole Syrlan importance of the
While not underestimating the CAIRO, June 8 (Reuter).-The likely line of advance operation in which Allied troops ing liberty and in eclaration grant- are supported by aircraft and and Lebanon, the economie provi- to Syria include British, Australians, sons of the British and Free French Indians and Free French, it is importance. Shice, France's capitula
declarations are almost equal lead in London to-day, tion, the economic life of Syria his Co-operation Hoped For been almost paralysed, exporta and hope of securing Arab and French ficulties, while ofl has ceased to run
CAIRO, June
Imports falling to a minimum and 8 (Reuter)-Tic
hampered by grave exchange dif- co-operation in the task in Syria is through the pipe-line to Syria. expressed in a Middle East
Cairo Report
CAIRO, June 8 (Reuter). Allied troops have made, some progress in Syria although it is not known whether opposition has been encountered or what are the reactions of the French, Authoritative circles are with- out any very definite news the situation.
of
Southerly March LONDON, June 8 (Reuter). British troops in Syria are marching in a southerly direction, according to a Vichy Government announcement quoted by the German radio,
Vichy Agency's Claim LONDON,
June (Reuter) "Strong motorised and armoured de- TURN to Back Page, Column 4
Malta Fights
LANDING
NEAR
BEIRUT
An
British Warships Take Part
munique which, referring to Syria, com→
says:
Early this morning. Allied forces,
Economic Revival
The' declarations contain a promisc. under the command of General Sir of economic revival with the lifting Henry Maitland Wilson, crossed the of the blockade and an opportunity frontier into Syrin with the object to enter into relations with the sterl of eliminating the. German personneling bloe and influence from, certain areas In There which they are secuing dominating that Syria, disgusted with the Ger- seema a good probability positions through continued infiltra-mans and tired of Vichy, will accept tion.
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the proffered independence and help "If allowed to proceed, unchecked, the Free French to drive the Ger- the establishment of Germon bases mans from the country.
In these areas might endanger the
security of the Allied situation in the.
Lampson's Assurance
Middle East and lead to Arab coun- CAIRO, June 8 (Reuter)-The tries being seized by the Axis British Ambassador, Sir Miley Lamp- ·
Powers.
1
Air Operations
In Mid. East
It is hoped to secure both French TURN to Back Pago, Column 4 and 'Arab co-operation in this task."
Petain's AppealTM VICHY, June 8 (Reuter)-Marshal VICHY. June 8 (Reuter).- Pelain, in a message to Frenchmen announcement that British in Syria, calls on them to "fight in a warships landed a detachment of territory entrusted to
Just cause and for the integrity of troops armed with tommy guns history.
France by
CAIRO, June 8 (Reuter)-Beng- on the coast of Lebanon south of Beirut this morning was made
Hold Conference
hazl, the Libyan harbour and base LONDON, June 8 (Reuter) into a blazing inferno by RAF occupled by Axis forces, was turned to-night by the Vichy news Marshal Petain and Admiral Darlan bombers on Friday night for the agency.
hurriedly conferred as soon, as news recend night in succession.. of the advance into Syria reached The British naval forces, adds Vichy, states Rome Radio, the agency, consisted of one
viously seen cruising off Beirut. destroyers which had been pre- The agency asserts that the troops
Fires raging among the military buildings and in the harbour area were."stoked up" by the bombers until they could be seen 50 miles
Off Raiders battleship, two cruisers and five VICHY LEADERS' away.
Saturday night when planes attack
were promptly taken prisoner."
Latest Position
MOVEMENTS
Abyssinia
CAIRO, June 8 (Reuter)From Molla comes" an official decount of the raid by several enemy aircraft on
To-night's RAF. Middle East com- Incendiaries⠀ ing the Island singly, dropped
ZURICH, June 8 (Reuter).Ad-refers to the attack on Derns acro- munique, which reports the raid, also bombs which, caused light civilian
miral Darlat-la-returning. to Paris to drome and Bara and to bombing and ALEXANDRIA, June 8 (Heu-was no service damage or casualty,
domage and no casualties. There in Syrla Ls given by the Vichy agency according to Uie Genovese news- Jimma area of Abyssinia.
The latest position of the fighting resume conversations with Germany. machine-gunning attacks in the ter).While British and Free
One Italian light bomber was shot and armoured detachments of British to-night. It says: “Strong motorised French forces entered Syria, the down by R.A.F. Aghters and another and Gaullist. troops, supported by France,
RAF fighters also carried out paper, "La Suisse.**
M. Laval reached Unoccupied protective patrola over shipping in savage air attack on Alexandria,
on Sunday, Clermond- the Mediterranean and one enemy bably did not reach, its base, subjecting the city to yet proached the coast but the rald did trops of all arms, whom this un-and the French Colonial Regents in
This morning enemy aircraft a Syrian frontier to Damascus
along the road leading from the be his eventual destination
African fighter and forced to jettison Our General Woygend les left Vichy its tumbs. another vicious all-night blitz, not materialise
TURN to Back Page, Column 5 Africa are returning to their posts. from all operations,.
All R.AF. aircraft returned anfory
Eighty-three ships have been sunk | Germans. launched their second / Was "so badly damaged that it pro- artillery, are attempting to advance Ferrand, near Vichy, is reported to aircraft was driven off by a South
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Nazi squadrons swooping to almost suicidally low altitudes showered heavy explosive and incendiary bombs far and wide, causing death and destruction ati | several points in the city. ND
Considerable damage was dodo In European and Arab residential.quar- ters alike, and it is feared that hundreds wero killed and injured;
Fires','Extinguished
promptly controlled.
The Hongkong R.N.V.R. has again been mentioned in broadcasts from London. In July, 1999, it was announced in a news bulletin from London that the H.K. Naval. Volunteer Force had been granted Empire status in consequence of the Colony's offer to build sales and to place them, also offers and men of the H.K.N.V.R. at the disposal of the Admiralty for general service in emergency,
| Royal Canadian Navy, the Royal Last night, listeners to an in- Indian Navy, the New Zealand Square put up by British and teresting talk given by Mr H. C. dron, the South African Naval Ser-
vice, the Royal Naval Reserve, and warships.
"
Fires were started but they were
The main attacks developed in the port area where a number of planes zoomed through a' veritable hell of
Greek
Ferraby, the Naval correspond the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and exploding shells, the enemy Amidst an interno of screaming ent, in the series "Questions of of the British Commonwealth. the Hour" were told about the
seemed determined to press home the The speaker, in giving pride of attack but failed to hit a warship many unity that make up what place in the Colonies to the Hongkong or any military objectives, is commonly known as “The Royal Naval | Volunteer Reserve, The roaring of anti-aircraft gun- Navy'the Royal Navy, the mentioned the valuable services are died away towards dawn, when being rendered to the Empire by Alexandria's heaviest and most Royal Australian Navy the these units
sustained raid came to an end.
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ABYSSINIA
Prisoners And Booty Captured
CATHO June 8 (Reuter),—^ Middle East communique states:
"Abyssinia Aftercasing the River Omo in two places, East and
Importance of British Advance Into Syria
Special to the "Telegraph"
LONDON, June 8 (UP)The British entry into Syria will
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West African troops are pressing for not only serve to protect the Suez Canal, but will also provide ward. At the northern crossing Britain with an ideal base to counter any German attack on alone, the enemy lost over 100 dead, Cyprus or Crete, and will provide a solid protective bloc between leaving 1,000.or
more
ore prisoners in Hitler and the Near Eastern oil fields. peland our hands.
·
"In addition, we captured 20
guris,
which
Politically, It will serve to re-tween 40,000 und 60.000 men there 200 torries, many machine-guns and pair the damage to British pres of which 15,000 are French with 500 quantities of war material.,
The retreating enemy forces are tige in the Middle East, and is French planer, a large number of being vigorously pursued...
particularly likely to stiffen morale is reported to be low and aro... obsolescent; however, **"Traq The situation remains Turkey's anti-German pressure, there considerable, sub-surface colm,
"Libyan Tubruk, artillery on ance, the French army in Syria will
It is uncertain what sort of resist. 'sontiment for: General De Gaulle, both sides has been active"
According to some reports, French put up. Reputably, there are" be,
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