SYRIA AND AXIS
DEMANDS EXPECTED
ACCEPTANCE LIKELY
BRIBES FOR ARABS?
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, August 28. The Cairo correspondent of "The Times" says that the Italian Armistice Commission is momentarily expected in Beirut with the Axis demands against Syria. The Syrian authorities will receive them satisfactorily because they are distinctly unfriendly towards Britain. The border of Syria and Palestine has remained strictly closed from the Syrian side except for the transit of traffic to Turkey. British subjects remain in danger of arrest. The British Consul-General, Mr. Havard, has been forced to leave Beirut and take up residence in Aley, a tourist resort in Lebanon, presumably -to prevent him from observing developments in Beirut or exerting any influence on the population. The Italian commission will no doubt strive mainly to stir up the Syrian Arabs against Britain with bribes and intrigue.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 52, 29 August 1940, Page 11
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140SYRIA AND AXIS Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 52, 29 August 1940, Page 11
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