Jerusalem. June 25.
The British are tightening the ring at Palmyra, in northern Syria, which is now almost surrounded. The British troops are meeting considerable machine-gun and bombing opposition.
Another column advancing towards Palmyra has almost reached it, said a military spokesman here yesterday afternoon. He added that these forces were independent from a third column which had occupied Abu Kamel on the Euphrates, on the frontier between Syria and Iraq.
British forces have driven out a small party of the enemy holding a small hamlet south-west of Suweida, capital of the Druse country.—Reuter.
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