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END OF RESISTANCE

PREDICTED BY GENERAL DE GAULLE SAYS VICHY TROOPS ARE ON THE RUN. ENCOUNTERING DIFFICULTIES OF SUPPLY. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, June 22. “The taking of Damascus must end the resistance of the Vichy forces in Syria,” says the Free French leader, General de Gaulle, from Cairo. The Free French radio in Jerusalem says the Vichy troops are on the run. They are encountering supply difficulties, particularly food, which they are requisitioning from villages without payfiient. Interrogation of prisoners indicates that General Dentz has thrown in all his forces, including reserves. The Free French entered Damascus at 3 p.m. after the most intense fighting of the campaign. Accounts from Jerusalem say the Vichy forces con-, tested every inch of the advance from Kiswe. They were well supported by artillery and armoured cars and subjected the Free French to fierce machine-gunning from prepared positions.

Sharp fighting raged across the railway eight miles south of Damascus till the Free French captured two machine-gun posts with the bayonet. Indian and Colonial troops meanwhile occupied Mezze and then on Saturday pushed on and captured heights threatening the Damascus-Beirut road. The British and Australians in air attacks on the Damascus-Reyak road chased several columns and destroyed many of a convoy of 120 vehicles which blocked the road.

Vichy sources say the Allies made a three-point attack on Damascus, throwing in large reinforcements and bombarding the city. Agency reports say General de Gaulle’s troops in Syria number 5000. of which 1500 are Frenchment and the rest legionnaires and natives. The total Allied forces are between 25,000 and 30,000.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1941, Page 5

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264

END OF RESISTANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1941, Page 5

END OF RESISTANCE Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 June 1941, Page 5

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