BASES IN SYRIA
DEMANDED BY ITALIANS MORE PRESSURE ON VICHY. REFUSAL TO FLY AIRCRAFT TO RHODES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 29. Further evidence is forthcoming of the increasing pressure which Italy is exerting on the Vichy Government authorities in Syria. A Reuter message from Cairo today outlined a fresh series of Italian demands as follows: First, the use of Tripoli as an Italian naval base; second, the grounding at Rhodes, in the Dodecanese Islands, for the duration of the war, of all French aircraft at present in Syria; third, the handing over of two air bases fh Syria and the Lebanon; fourth, the complete demobilisation of the French forces in Syria, except the police. While the French authorities have already refused to fly their aircraft to Rhodes, their response to the other Italian demands is not known. The Syrian port of Tripoli is distant only about. 150 miles from the British base at Cyprus and, 300 miles from Suez.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1940, Page 5
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