TENSE STRUGGLE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 140, 16 June 1941, Page 7

TENSE STRUGGLE

ON WIDE FRONTIER Air Force Gives Strong Aid To Army And Navy L'-P.A. and British Wireless Rcc. 1.30 p.m. LONDON, June 15. C^h-^sav^fh 3 com " forces are now in h . 6 Allied whole frontier with t° ng lhe the central sector tho a i r' OOP u In M„ J SSS^«S- £ — ground forces m Sylta K" British rai* ioSSVS «'i4 5u vJ ?, hte ? and °ne bomber Wt,'i' ge r" A number of other hostile aircraft were attacked m<i damaged by r.a.F. fighterl near tnrl V , Alllecl bomber aircraft attacked hostile troops and motor transport in the Mirgille area

Aircraft of the Fleet Air Arm tor pedoed an enemy vessel near Beirut!

Reinforcements in Iraq It was reported earlier from Jem salem that the Al]ied JeiuMerjiyun have advanced up the Litam valley and reached Burkush l° ari mi l e l we *t of They had taken Djezzin, inland from Sidon. Allied for es from M Quneitra had reached Hamadieh 20 nnles south-west of Damascus 'and forces east of Kiswe had virtuallv caSfaf ted the en "rclement of t^e

Free French parties were cmerat ing within a short distanceof iuee Fiench units were put out of action by Vichy artillery fire resistance Damascus was weakening and the Vichy force! no particular eagerness to light, preferring to withdraw Forces which earlier withdrew had taken u| positions across the road south of the

rhV? c a re P° rt states that the Butish are moving into Iraq at a good speed. The Royal Air Force is installed at Mosul, and troops! mostly Indians, are coming up from Basra and Bagdad by boat and train and others are flying to Mosul and Habbaniyah. British motorised troops are stationed at bases throughout the country including Kirkuk, and form the nucleus of what will apparently mUCh gre3ter expedl