Jerusalem, July 3. IFFICULTIES with which Allied forces surrounding Palmyra are now contending were described yesterday by a spokesman, who stated that to the north lay a belt of rocky desert country which would hardly be traversed by motor transport while to the south was a belt of soft sand and a large area of salt marsh.
But the Allies have now captured a wedge to the south-west overlooking a road running from Palmyra westward to Horns. The Vichy French had good pillbox. fortifications around the town. The
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