Cairo, Oct. 14.
Mhe Commander-in-Chief in the Middle East, General Sir Claude Auchinleck, recently made a tour of inspection of parts of Palestine and Syria, it is revealed.
"He inspected the staff school, local defences and civilian A.R.P. arrangements at Haifa and visited the batfleflelds of the Syrian campaign around Beirut, Merdj Ayoum and Jezzina and the Litani River crossing where British troops fought gallantly against very stiff opposition and suffered severe losses in an attempt to cut off Vichy communications.
At Beirut, General Auchinleck con-femed with General Catroux and General Spears, In Tripoli and Baal-beck areas, he visited a number of Australian units and saw yeomanry Tegiments training in the Jerusalem area.—Reuter.
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