TERMS ACCEPTED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 5

TERMS ACCEPTED

BY VICHY REPRESENTATIVES IN SYRIA BROADCAST BY GENERAL WILSON. BULWARK OF DEFENCE AGAINST GERMANY. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.52 a.m.) RUGBY, July 13. A Cairo headquarters communique states that yesterday evening the Vichy representatives in Syria accepted the Allied terms for an armistice convention to end hostilities there. General Sir H. M. Wilson, broadcasting immediately after the initialling of the Syrian armistice documents, said: "We have just been taking part in a painful but necessary ceremony—painful because it is difficult to have to fight a war of this kind, whatever the outcome, necessary on account of the vital importance, since the defection of cur late ally, of ensuring the safety of the territory she occupied in Syria and Lebanon. These territories were until recently used by our main enemy to pur detriment. That opposition now has come to an end. The negotiations in which we have been engaged should assure us a bulwark of defence against Germany and a well-placed position from which to deal with him. Throughout these negotiations, because the French and ourselves fought side by side not only in the last war, but also up to just over a year ago. we had the feeling of the French Army at heart and have done our best to spare their honour without prejudicing our own security. 1 am glad to say the whole of the proceedings were carried out without acrimony and with a will to produce satisfactory results.”

WAR MATERIALS FLOW FROM UNITED STATES. ALLIED POWER BEING MULTIPLIED. NEW YORK, July 12. War materials from the United States are flowing into Egypt in a steady stream, with ships arriving at the rate of one a dayThe “Herald Tribune’s" Cairo correspondent says the breathing space which Hitler has provided is being used literally to multiply the power at the disposal of the armies guarding the Near East. British and American ships are unloading war supplies 24 hours every day. NAZI DESIGNS NEW SWEEP EXPECTED IN NEAR EAST. NEW YORK, July 12. The “New York Times” Cairo correspondent says military observers in the Near East, while praising the Russian stand, believe that the Soviet can only delay the German march. Thus the military leaders expect Germany to launch a new sweep toward Egypt, and perhaps also toward India, in the near future.