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NAZIS SAY IT APPLIES TO SYRIA PASSAGE OF TANKS & WAR MATERIALREPORTED BY FREE FRENCH AGENCY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright! (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, May 16. The Independent French Agency's Cairo correspondent says German tanks and light war material are cross-, ing Syria in the direction of Iraq. Twenty big bombers landed at Damascus and transport planes at Rayak Aerodrome, 30 miles from Beirut. Free French Air Force planes dropped pamphlets urging the French in Syria to throw oft' the Vichy yoke. At least eight German freighters and four or five Italian or Rumanian ships have entered the Aegean Sea from the Black Sea, laden with troops and war material, states the British United ( Press Istanbul correspondent. < A Berlin spokesman refused to comment on the Luftwaffe's use of Syrian . aerodromes, but said that if France permitted the passage of German j troops and planes across Syria, she ; wdtild merely be applying the United . States principle of lease and lend. i
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 May 1941, Page 6
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