London, June 11
ESISTANCE to Allied forces in Syria is described as "patchy" by authoritative quarters in London, Some hundreds of prisoners including Tunisians have fallen into Allied hands.
It is not quite clear whether they surrendered without fighting. number are known to have Free French sympathies.
The Free French are encountering resistance at Kiswe, south of Damascus, and it is confirmed that Allied troops which landed by sea around the region where the forces crossed the Litani river met with "pretty stiff" opposition. pointed out that the, Allied advance was never Intended t0 take the form of a biltktieg. A. report that Damascus has been taken is be-Tiewed to. be untrue.
caribing the progress of, the alli 'A"eommentator la Jerusalem des: Sperations says that two branches of former Ave-pronged advance are now converging. along. the coast be= Yond Tyre. Two columns are already South of Damascus anda middle Columg is edvaneing into Mert Work of liaison is being performed yeomanry while a detachment, of cavalry troops occupied. the country, topping up pockets of reslsiance and carrying "out old-fashioned sabre charges. on outposts, "Toe Australians are said to have had no rear resistance at mest of the French Fotces ate believed to have ithdraven to the northwest, The navy. ts operating off the coast of Syria but details are not yet ovallabie.
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