Ankara, June 11.
Allied troops from Iraq are reported here to have reached the im. portant centre of Kamashra. Thi is in the region where the Turkishaq railway crosses Syria. Well-informed quarters are inclined to believe that the Allied drive from Iraq is very important, and think that once Aleppo is reached and the troops turn south, the last signs of resistance may be expected to disappear. The Turks appear to be satisfied at the rate of the Allied advance—Reuter.
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Admiral Francois Darlan's speech and. newspapt in the unoccupied zone are a mirror of the general dejection over events in Syria, The Vichy Government, he dec; is confronted with the embarrassing dilemma that if it engages in hostilities with Great Britain and De Gaullist compatriots, it risks dragging France into a general war, but a British success in Syria would "reinforce the dissident movement,"
The Berlin correspondent of the. "Gazette De Lausanne" writes that while the Wilhelmstrasse maintains the view that Germany is merely an observer in a purely French conflict, Berlin is ppointed at Vichy's political reaction which is considered to be lacking "sufficient energy and clarity,"—Reuter,
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