In the beginning that army was estimated to number somewhere in implements of war.
Turkey has am interest in seeing that Syria remains out of. Italian hands. And the Turks have warned Italy not to try to take over the tertory.
"The Italian threat to Syria apparently was diminished as a result of the British drive into Libya. This seemed to end the immediate danger of any axis push toward Britain's Near Eastern possessions. And it inj creased. British prestige throughout the Moslem world, which includes Syria. What's more the British Mediterranean fleet.commands fe sen approaches to Syria. And Italy's navy has shown no desire to challenge the British at sea, Syria is an agricultural country. Its principal crops are wheat. barley, corn, oats and rye. Vegetables and fruits are raised in abundance, and tobacco, hemp and cotton also are produced, there is some cattle-breed-King and sheep-raising, and some inby dications of moderate mineral wealth have been discovered.
"The population of the area numbers some three million persons. The religion is largely Mohammedan, the language Arabic.—United Press.
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