Alexandretta, June 13, Allied diplomatic sources reported yesterday that at least two columns of British mechanized forces, coming from the direction of Mosul, "had penetrated. northwest Syria and, ac~ cording to reports, had captured and established a base at the important jearavan center of Haseke, Hascke situated at the junction of the Khabur and Radd rivers, was believed that "one column was rushing westward along the last Tuesday night, "Every day a German general and his staff ly to Rhodes with reports and papers, and then return to Aleppo after midnight," one traveller stated—United Press,
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