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THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 10, 1941
Drive Penetrates 70 Miles Inland
(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL”)
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. 'planes, are reported to be swiftly closing in Domascus, the capital. Capture Beirut, the capital's port, is regarded as probable within a few hours.
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General Wilson's British and Free French 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.
FLEW OVER GERMANY WITH CZECH SECRETS
1 At some points the Allied ad-
vance, according to the London "Daily Express," has reached 70 miles into Syria, and one column has driven 30 miles along the road from the Jebel Druse aţea to Dam-
ascus.
The progress of the British en- try into Syria by the const road from Tyre and beyond the men- eral line inland was announced by a communique from British Mid- dle East General Headquarters lust evening.
River Litani Crossed
The secret of the mys- terious aeroplane which tration by the Allied forces
The communique states: "Pene- into Syria is progressing. By this morn- landed at Croydon on the ing they were beyond Tyre and evening before the Ger-later effected the crossing of the mans entered Prague two years ago has at last been vanced revealed.
River Litani,
"On the right they have ad- Liszra-Sheikh- beyond Miskine-Quinetra."
The advance northward of our forces. consisting of mechanised When the German detachments British, Free French, Australians on the evening of March 15, 1939. and Indians. is progressing.
invaded the Czechoslovak Re-cording to messages received public there was an historic scene | Cairo. in the General Staff building in Prague,
Escape In A Storm
ac- in
It is considered very satisfac- tory that they have crossed the River Litani, which might have been a serious obstacle.
TEACHING SEX APPEAL
The technique of sex appeal should be taught to university students, says Miss Pearl Buck, the nove- list.
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"Nothing can give sex appeal to the man or woman who does not
possess the technique, whether God-given or taught,' she told the Progres- sive Education As- sociation of Philadel- phia.
"The sex appeal technique should be included as part of the education of men and women for each other," she added, "with full training in regard to the proper times and places to
use it."- Reuter.
teaching of
ITALIANS'
"CONFIRMED LOSSES"
Very few details are yet avail- 46 One of the high officers of the able in Cairo on the political as- Czechoslovak army had to de-pect as to French reaction but it cide what to do with the state's seems evident that resistance must valuable documents and files, have been slight so far. which it was thought would be The advance from Dera, through of great
value to any western the difficult Jebel-Druse country, countries threatened by Germany. is also progressing satisfactorily.
At length 11 officers of the Czechoslovak Intelligence Ser.
vice were told to gel this valu- able material out of the try at all costs.
coun-
Jebel Druse
Pro-British
Italian General Head- quarters in Rome yester- day issued the following Th's area is mostly composed in list of "confirmed losses" the south-east of lava beds and for the month of May.
needs keep to
The Job was not a simple transport must one. There was danger not only tracks. for the officers but also their familles, who would cer
for
tainly fall into the hands of
the Germans the next day.
A
heavy storm was ruging
But the Jebel Druses have
On the Greco-Albanian and Al- memories of ruthless repression banian-Yugoslav fronts 1,430 were and are be ieved to be pro-British. killed. 4,123 wounded and 223
On The roads through Dera and missing.
the Ita'o-Yugoslav were killed and 24
Quinetra, both 40 to 45 miles from
14 fronts
over Prague. But they had to Damascus, converge on that city wounded.
take off as quickly as possible.most important centre in Syria, In North Africa 329 were kill-
Their aeroplane climbed as high
Sheikh-Miskine is half way be-ed, 752 wounded and 23,919 miss-
as possible, because orders had tween them, and Tyre is about 30 ing., In East Africa 58 were kill- been given by the Germans for to 35 miles from Beirut, with the ed. 77 wounded and 2,354 miss- bidding aeroplanes to take off. and Litani River some 10 miles to the ing. threatening to fire on any which disobeyed.
Germans' Search
The aeroplane left Bohemia and flew west over Germany. Here the storm was even worse, and from time to time the aeroplane driven miles out of its
Was
direction.
As darkness fell searchlights began to sweep the skies, and the aeroplane was picked up in the beams. Again it had to climb to escape....
"The Germans had been told
were
north.
In the naval forces 38 THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF, killed, 187 wounded and 3,030 GERMAN ACTION. INTER-missing, and in the Air Forces, 79 NATIONAL NEWS AND REU-were killed, 41 wounded and 493 TER.
missing-Reuter,
BLACK-OUT LIGHTS:
DIPLOMATS WARNED
THE DIPLOMATIC Corps as a body is being
of our escape and were search- asked to ensure that the black-out regulations are
stated,
ing for us," one of the officers strictly observed by its members, writes the "Sunday They escaped, however, and Express" Diplomatic Correspondent.
دانه
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after, a short stop in a neutral airport in Northern Europe, these 11 Czechoslovak officers landed at Croydon at 10.40 p.m. March 14....
1939. They were the first Czechs to Join the British. They became military collaborators of President Beries in London, and me now serving in the theận Czechoslovak
army in Great Britain.
The story, was told by one of the aeroplane's pas- Henger
bassadors, and Ministers of for-- *** The corps includes all the Am-
eign countries accredited here.
There have recently been com-|- broken by foreign diplomats, plaints that the black-out -is |
Hp Thej “Bunday: Expraat?! Venied that underpened dare being
connected" with embassi
Under Internationaj law, for eign diplomatshare aro entitled * £o” @diplomatio munity's from our #lawa, this Immunity, is absolute;-aven, extending to murder
enfor senise it would be possible for the British Gov- ernment to demand, the recall
of an offending, diplomat on the They plead diplomatic
around that he wâr no longer nunity" where investigations are acceptable to the British Govern, made.
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