RAIDS IN SYRIA
VICHY PLANES & TRANSPORT DESTROYED REPEATED ONSLAUGHTS ON BEIRUT. DAMAGE DONE TO DOCKS & QUAY. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright ) LONDON, July 2. In Syria, the R.A.F. and the Royal Australian Air Force have carried out further extensive and successful raids on enemy targets. Two hostile aircraft were burnt out on the ground and four others were badly damaged. Hits were scored on the aerodrome barracks and stores at Palmyra, and fires were started among dispersed aircraft at Aleppo. Two light tanks and 20 motor transport vehicles were put out of action. All the British planes returned.
The harbour and shipping at Beirut were again raided and bits scored on the main docks and central quay. Vichy reports four, raids during the night.
ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
SHOT FIRED AT GENERAL DENTZ. DEMAND FOR EVACUATION OF BEIRUT. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, July 1. The Tel Aviv newspaper “Omer" says that an unidentified man fired a shot at the Vichy t commander in Syria, General Dentz, as he entered a car outside his Beirut office. The bullet went wide and the man escaped. Pamphlets were distributed the same evening threatening General Dentz and his staff if Beirut was not evacuated to prevent the city becoming a battleground. A curfew was imposed. INDEPENDENT REGIME THE FREE FRENCH PROMISE TO SYRIA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, July 1. General de Gaulle’s headquarters in London state that the Syrian Government has published a letter from the Free French leader in the Middle East, General Catroux, addressed to the Syrian Prime Minister which confirms the results reached by meetings during which
discussions took place on the different aspects of Syrian independence.
General Catroux stated that Free France was naturally anxious to hasten the time when an independent and sovereign regime become a concrete reality and when a French-Syrian treaty would be signed. To have such a regime accepted and such a treaty signed it was necessary that the whole of the French territories actually in the Levant should be delivered’ from the Mandate regime. Therefore it would only be so when the Allied Powers had occupied the whole country and brought freedom in that way to all the Syrian population. He therefore asked the Syrian population to let him govern for the time being, such a mission ending when Syria was wholly occupied.
LITTLE CHANGE POSITION NEAR PALMYRA RETAKEN. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.15 a.m.) RUGBY, July 2. A British headquarters in Cairo communique states: “In Libya there is no change. “In the area west of Lake Mti, in Abyssinia, operations are continuing satisfactorily. “British troops have recaptured a position overlooking Palmyra, which we had temporarily lost as the result of a Vichy counter-attack. In the Damascus sector our troops repulsed an attack on Nebek. During this action several enemy tanks were destroyed and one was captured, in running order. In the central sector there is no change. On the coast further local advances have been made."
SPEEDING UP
ADDITIONS TO IMPERIAL FORCES. (Received This Day, 10.35 a.m.) LONDON, July 2. The Imperial troops in Syria have been reinforced, as a result of which it is hoped to speed up the campaign. It is reported that the Allies have taken Essukhne and occupied two Vichy posts north of Jezzin.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 July 1941, Page 5
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