London, June 6.
'VIDENCE of German infiltration into Syria is still accumulating, and is in no way altered by a deni broadcast from Beirut last night by General Dentz, French High Commissioner in Syria, according to reliable quarters here.
The General, in a speech last night, referred bitterly to what he called the mad lies and rumours" which said that German troops and planes were in Syria, and he again warned Britain that France would meet force with force, General Dentz's statement evoked Immediate reply from a Free French Radio broadcast, which said that hotels in Beirut were filled with German officers and that General Dentz had asked Vichy to send Frenchmen with Nazi sympathies. oF even Germans, for the defence of Syria, "The authorities in Syria, the Free French broadcast added, had begun to repair and enlarge" aerodromes Uhroughout the country under the advice of German experts.
Other repens received here state that with the German occupation of the airport at Damascus, the three largest alr bases in Syria are now inder enemy control; that a. regular trafic of German planes has been observed on route from Rhodes to Syria; that more German aircraft have arrived in acrodromes In north= fern Syria and that 800 tong of avi tion fuel have arrived at Aleppo in 9 Hungarian steamer.
A. number of French officers suspected of sympathy with General de Gaulle are stated fo have been rested by order of General Dentz, end a report from Ankara says that Syrian town near the frontier of Palestine has been evacuated in, readiness for war.—Reuter,
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