The Archive · 1941

Occupied Territory

Syria and Lebanon will henceforth be regarded as enemy-occupied territory for the purposes of trade says an announcement by the Board of Trade and Ministry of Economic Warfare.

All goods originating or owned in Syria and Lebanoi are liable to Canea, military observers stated today.

It was possible, they added, that other reinforcements were being landed by British troop-carrying planes at the Retimo and Heraklion aerodromes, which were in British hands.—

United Press. seizure by the British authorities.—

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