Jerusalem, July 10.
Damour hag been captured by Tm: perial troops and. advance patrols have already pushed on. from. the town and are now within sight of Beirut. according toa military spokesman at General Wilson's head quarters.
4 considerable number of prisoners ud stocks of war material have been captured at Damour, With the fall of Damour, involving the collapse of Vichy's main defences based on. this ttle village a few miles south Beirut. Viehy's most important port is liable to fall into Allied hands at Any moment. General Dentz's request for an armistice has. therefore, caused little surprise here, where it is polnted out that from a military viewpoint the Vichy troops are in a desperate otition.
'Th capture of Damour is a crib pling' blow because elsewhere in Syria the position of Vichy troops is equally Serious. British Imperial troops are also threatening the remaining key felty of Aleppo from the south-east ime time, Allied 1g from 1d" Fulqlus, threatening. the vital zoad and rail junction of Horns from the south and east, and further more the Vichy troops in Jezzine are now' in imminent danger of being fooled as a result of the Aled push slong the coast,
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