GERMAN AGENTS IN SYRIA

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23349, 7 June 1941, Page 9

GERMAN AGENTS IN SYRIA

‘‘Country Virtually V v Taken Over” IMPROVEMENTS TO AERODROME -* : (Received June 6, 8 p.m.) I, i; ■“ LONDON, June 5. 7 The correspondent of the “Daily Ex- : WfM" on the Syrian frontier says that tW, von Roser, Herr Hitler’s chief Kwet agent in Syria, virtually took over v the country from the French toand a great round-up of antl•'./wWis beganUfl Beirut, where security and. Uouse-to-houlSe searchers jwflgent them to Damascus. _ ’ «te have warned the port v, authorities that Beirut must soon make for German E-boats and gub- ' Heines, which must be given facilito those given to the French Beirut correspondent of the ,;.s ..Palestine Post” reports that the Gerhave not yet appeared in apnumbers In Beirut and ’ but a group of German exhas inspected all the aerodromes Syria and Lebanon with the object them serviceable for the ?% ; ffltwaffe. The Germans have drawn Plans for an improvement of the on which the French have r®£ted work, French authorities in Syria are mlgMrtog and extending the military jWifibdromes in Lebanon and Syria in with a recommendation by vtennans in the country, states the French News Agency. , e British Broadcasting Corporasins observer on the Syrian frontier Richard Dimbleby) states that 4 .~y*iOPed into open arrivals hy air and Beirut the Germans are pariyiJCTjarly active, probably because it is iiS’Jkf i£hie£ centre of British symnaliPra’i Some sympathisers have been and others have been forced away. [Sjffheychief of the French gendarmerie MgrajyjiebanoD ■ has joined Genetal de spite of anti-aircraft fire, British Sffißydplanes to-day bombed the oil area g||p-Beirut, Jsiarysg large fires.