FREE FRENCH FORCES
CROSS INTO SYRIA LIVELY REACTIONS AMONG GARRISON (Rec. 11.45 a.m.) London, May 21. Free French troops it is reported have penetrated Syria, states an in-* dependent French agency dispatch from the Syrian frontier. Their j strength and the conditions under j which they crossed the frontier are j unknown. Signs of lively reactions among the French garrison in Syria j may lead to support for the De , Gaulle forces, although M. Bergeret French Minister of Air, is doing his utmost to stiffen resistance. A Haifa message states that more < German planes arrived at the Palyra t and Damascus aerodromes. British and j Free French planes are reported to 1 have bombed without loss to themselves \ parked German planes, leaving huge i fires. I 1 ' * i t | , . j J ’
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 22 May 1941, Page 5
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131FREE FRENCH FORCES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 22 May 1941, Page 5
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