TO MEET AXIS AGGRESSION
PREPARATIONS IN SYRIA i Ry Telegraph—Press Aseociation—Copyright.) (Reed. 10.5 p.m.) London, April 4 The Australian Press Association correspondent at Beirut says that preparations are continuing in Syria to meet any Axis aggression. A New Zealand force, including veterans from Greece and Crete and from last winters campaign in the Western Desert, joined Free French, British and Australian units which form the Ninth Army. Work on fortifications is being pushed ahead and more manpower and materials are due to arrive. Syria, while nervous about the possibility of attack, is internally peaceful and enjoys the greatest boom in its history.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 80, 6 April 1942, Page 5
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102TO MEET AXIS AGGRESSION Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 86, Issue 80, 6 April 1942, Page 5
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