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Luna Stén:7 Leah Yen Sirv

THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 16, 1941.

TWENTY-TWO SYRIA CONVENTION CLAUSES

UNDER THE TERMS of the Syrian

armistice, published in Vichy at noon yester MODERATE

day, French troops and French nationals will be repatriated in French ships.

There are 22 points in the agreement, as follow:-

1.

DEMANDS

Hostilities ended on July 11 at 9.01 ON VICHY

p.m. (G.M.T.) and the Allied forces will oc- cupy the territories of Syria and Lebanon.

2. The French forces will be concentrated in certain zones to be fixed by the commission before noon to-day at which hour the Allied forces will start to occupy certain strategic points.

Until their repatriation the French troops will remoin in their pos tions with reduced offi- cers and strength

under and French command.

3. The occupation of the prin- cipal localities will be carried out so

imme- to permit the as Ale replacement of the French 'troops by the forces of occupa

tion

sca

4. Minefields al tand will be notified occupation authorities.

5. The honours of war

and on 10 the

are to

Bombing of H.B.M Embassy

•

The bombing of a Bri- tish Embassy an

be rendered to the Frencls forces apology from the perpe- trators and another

with

which will be withdrawn their transport. including guns.

mynchine-guns, tanks and muni- bombing were disclos-

tions.

Release Of Prisoners

ed by the Under-Secretary| for Foreign Affairs, Mr. R. A. Butler, answering a soldiers are authorised to keep question in the Commons

A French officers. N.C.O.'s und.

their individual arms. Soldiers will not keep any ammunition.

All other wor materials will be stocked under the control of the British authorities who will have the right to carmark material which it is considered necessary to destroy This will be done by the French under the supervision of the British authorities.

7 Prisoners belonging to the Allied forces will be released im- mediately. French prisoners will! be released when the whole Syrian and Lebanon territories have been ocenoied and the armistice terms fulfilled.

yesterday.

The Syrian armistice, it is generally felt in Jerusalem, is an extreme- ly moderate one which goes no further than necessary to achieve the objects with which the Allies started the cam- paign.

to

These were to put an end German infiltration und the uso

of Syrian air bases by German aircraft and ensure that Syria should resume the place she of collapse held prior to the France as a strategic bulwark of the Allies in the eastern Mediter-

ranean.

Satisfaction is expressed ja Jerusalem that the full hon- ours of war have been accorded to the French in view of the courageous and skilful fight they made however misguid. ed, from the Allied viewpoint, their action may have been.

It is noted that the terms

of

the armistice permit soldiers and

civilians to choose between rally-

ing to the Allied cause or being repatriated.

The hope is expressed that many will choose the former now

trom of that they are free

Nazi influence and propaganda, which, reached such a pitch that

Vichy troops of the captured stated they were under the im- pression they were fighting the Italians. Reuter.

at Chung- The Embassy was

It was bombed three times king.

and a number during June people injured.

In response to representations the Japanese Minister of Marine on July 1 expressed regret and declared the attack was uninten- tional.

On July 8 another serious at

the tack occurred when

doo- truction of the Embassy was completed, although without casualties.

The British Ambassador Tokyo

in

a accordingly presented vigorous Note of protest support-

8. The choice whether to joinied by further oral representations. the Allied cause or be repatriated will be left to each individual.

9. Certain officials and special scrvice

nt officers will remain their mosts to ensure continuity in administration until they can be replaced.

Monetary Possessions

10. The

British

authorities.

dree to the repatriation of French troops and nationals by French sea transports.

be

11. The monetary possessions of repatriated French will transferred under authorities be established.

12. French labour rights

The Japanese Vice-Minister ex- pressed great regret and promised, to make investigations.--Reuter.

STRIKE TROUBLES OVER

to THERE IS NOT A SINGLE STRIKE IN THE UNITED will STATES THAT IS TROUBLING THE OFFICE OF PRODUCTION 13. The managements of pub-OF REPRESENTATIVES COM- MANAGEMENT, THE HOUSE lic services will be handed over intact.

be respected.

46

'PLANE HAD NO "PROPS"

of

some

Fighting off the attacks

five Messerschmitt` fighters over Holland, an R.A.F. bomber set course for home with oil pouring from the port engine.

The engine stopped-and Propeller fell off.

the

Out over the North Sea, on one engine, flew the bomber. The English coast was crossed and then the second airscrew, also damaged, dropped away. But the pilot brought his ma- chine down to a safe landing in a

MITTEE WHICH IS INVESTI- 18 GATING MIGRATORY LABOUR field. Points 14, 15, 16, 17 and

WAS TOLD YESTERDAY. BY provide that means of. com- munications, harbour installations, TOR OF THE OFFICE..

MR. SIDNEY HILLMAN, DIREC- aircraft and air installations, stocks of petrol, money and other means of payment in circulation or in reserve in banks, shall not be destroyed or otherwise posed of.

He had attacked oil tanks. near Rotterdam He said that American produc- light. ion was greater than that of the

Levant Troopsel

totalitarian States.

storage

in day-

*For twenty minutes the fight, went on. Our gunner ^ was wounded and the mechanism of. his gun carriage: i

Toutout of action, but he fought on, turn- Ing his gune with the hand con- trol.

A shell burst through the nose of the aircraft, and then the five "The weakness dis-

of the totali- Messerschmitt 109s. attacked.: tartan system is the loss of work- ers cooperation," he declared, adding that there are now 2,700,000 persons employed in de- The British military fence Industries, compared with authorities reserve the right, to 400,000 a year ago.

He estimated that the figure take into their service special Levant troops as and when they would be 5,700,000 a year hence, are discharged by the French-Reuter. authorities,

19.

20. The British authorities shall take no action against Syrians and Lebanese who took part, ir amilitary or administrative cap- acity in the recent hostilities.

21 Execution of the present agreement will be regulated and supervised by a commission-of Ite control, which will have

will be ceat at Beyrout and composed

boro, of five three appointed by the British and two by the French.

"and.

22. The present agreement will be drawn up in English French and, in case of disagree- ment, the English text shall be bindingReuter.

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