MOSTLY BOMBERS
I STRENGTH OF NAZI FORCE. LONDON, May 16. A Cairo message to-day says that most of the German planes which landed in Syria on their way to Iraq were bombers, though there may have been troop-carriers among them. They used two French airports in Syria, one near Beirut and the other at Aleppo. According to the Free French agency, the Nazi planes were escorted across” Syria by French fighters. It is learned in Cairo that Abdul lllah, the exiled Iraqi has gone to Basra from Amman, Transjordania. Bagdad radio said that Russia is allowing her pilots to volunteer to fight for Iraq. This is a “personal reprisal” for the British help to Finland. The German news- agency says that the first group of Syrian volunteers has gone to Iraq. The Germans say preparations arc under way to land more British troops and materials at Basra. According to the Angara radio. 40,000 French troops are garrisoned in Syria. The French troops are proBritish.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 142, 17 May 1941, Page 7
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