DAMASCUS FALLS TO ALLIES
Vichy Evacuates City HEAVY BOMBARDMENT BY BRITISH (By Telegraph.—Press Assu.—Copyright.) (Received June 22, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, June 22. The fall to Imperial troops .of Damascus, capital of Syria, is officially announced from British Middle East headquarters in Cairo. “In the face of enemy pressure and in order to avoid street fighting, French troops evacuated Damascus and occupied positions out- ' side the city,” states a communique issued by the Vichy commander, General Dentz, and broadcast by Beirut radio. General Dentz has assumed all executive and legislative powers in Syria. The Vichy Government claims that the British bombardment of Damascus caused fires in the main thoroughfare of the capital. The British military spokesman in Jerusalem says that the Allies pushed into the main lines of the capital’s defences under severe artillery fire. British and Indian troops who advanced against Mezze aerodrome, a few miles from Damascus, were hotly engaged and thei? - exact position is uncertain.
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Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 228, 23 June 1941, Page 7
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