The Cairo messages also said foreign reports alleged that Czoncellor Adolf Hitler had demanded that the High Commissioner for Syria, General Henri Dentz, allow Nazi troops to land in Syria.
The "Daily Mail" Cairo correspon= dent, Mr. Alexander Clifford. quoted reliable sowxcesenesaxgor that Cháncellor Hitler had premised Rashid planes an@ big stores of ammunition: by May 2 and the failure of this aid resulted in vigorous protests to the lion Minister in Baghdad.
Mr. Clifford added that Rashid finally despatched his War Minister to Ankara to make a last appeal to the German Ambassador to Turkey, Herr Franz von Papen, on the grounds that only Axis aid could save the situa tion.
Other correspondents believed that the German parachute troops. said to be massed in strategic Axis points. would shortly be showered on the Western Desert, Crete, Syria and Daq. They added that the British naval and military leaders in the eas were swiftly marshalling their length to meet the expected onsiaught—United Press
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