Ankara, Aug. 10.
Syria has now closed her frontiers to British and other subjects of military age.
Hitherto, despite the French capitulation, British subjects had still been able to pass through Syria in transit Now on orders from the Vichy Government, French Consulates have been instructed to refuse visas to all combatant subjects of military age.
This decision means the shutting of Syria, as a link between Turkey and Palestine, and also the exclusion of British subjects from the Taurus sign express between Istanbul and ás this line twice enters Syria.
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