ITALIANS IN SYRIA
MOVE AHEAD OF GERMANS DISARMAMENT IN PROGRESS. FRENCH PLANES BEING CATALOGUED (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 4. The Cairo correspondent of the “Daily Mail” says an Italian commission is already at Beirut and is secretly supervising the disarmament of Syria, indicating that Mussolini may have jumped the gun since the German commission is understood to be waiting in Turkey for the arrival of representatives of the Vichy Government. The news of the Italians’ arrival is adding to the resentment of the demobilised troops, and the British are flooding Syria with leaflets telling the inhabitants what is happening. The Italians are first cataloguing the French aeroplanes, which Mussolini apparently will appropriate for flying to his bases in Rhodes and the Dodecanese islands.
Beirut’s French leaders are believed to be opposing the Italians, and when the Germans arrive an interesting triangular situation is likely to develop.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1940, Page 5
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