The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-06-06
War
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many. Rubber, oil and tin are
the Indies chief war products.
On the fight front, British mid
die east headquarters reported
that Raj bombers attacked Ital-
ian planes yesterday at Aleppo
airdrome in Syria-the first Off
cial British disclosure that Fas-
cist aircraft were in the French
middle east colony. One plane
was destroyed, it was said.
Italian bombers were reported
today to have attacked Britain's
great rock citadel of Gibraltar,
guarding the western entrance of
the Mediterranean sea, while
the Germans forecast aerial
blows at the Suez Canal in the
cast.
Linked with Wednesday
nights heavy assault on the
main British naval base at Alex
andria these reports indicated
that an Axis campaign to bottle
up the British Mediterranean
fleet may already be in motion.
$50 CASUALTIES
London radio said casualties at
Alexandria numbered $50 killed
and 200 wounded.
Meanwhile, Frances high
military chieftains. in cabinet
session at Vichy, were reported
discussing u. S. Secretary of
State Cordell Hull's blunt warn
ing that French cooperation
with Germany was utterly in
imical to the just rights of other
countries
With Vice Premier Admiral
Jean Darlan presiding. the meet
ing was attended by Generals
simo Maxine Weygand, COM
mander-in-chief of FIR ance' S
North African armies; Governor
General Pierre Boisson of
French West Africa, and resident
General Admiral Jean Esteva of
TuniSia.
The question Of empire de-
Tense as part of Adolf Hitler
new European order was also
said to have been discussed.
Giving point to the delibera-
tions, General Henri Dentz, COM
mander-in-chief of French forces
in Syria and Lebanon, issued a
dramatic order to his troops:
DEFENSE ORDERED
1.-THE command is clear. De-
fend our possessions and defend
them with our own forces.
There is nothing in this con-
trary to the honor and interests
of France. You have heard me.
You have understood me. / say
no more. Now to your posts!'
Amid indications that British
troops might move into Syria at
any moment, MICS correspond
ent in Ankara, Turkey, said Ger
man soldiers were reported to
have occupied Damascus, the
capital of Syria, only so miles
from British-ruled Transfer
dan.
Both the French and Germans
have emphatically denied the
presence of Nazi troops in
Syria. The German radio broad
cast a report from Beirut that
British forces were preparing to
land on the north Syrian coast
and also to attack from Palestine
and Trans-Jordan.
Berlin radio broadcast a re-
port that British bombers at
tackled a French troop camp in
southern Lebanon and met anti
aircraft fire.
POSITION GRAVE
In London, the press warned
that Britain's position in the
middle east was grave, once
more a clamor was made for de-
cisive action to beat Hitler S
blitz legions to the punch.
Britain's former was Secretary
Leslie Hore-Belisha, in a speech
bitterly assailing Prime Minis
ter Churchills conduct of the
war, told an audience in Edin-
burgh, Scotland:
eve must win this war and
we will back any government
that will 60 all out to win it. We
must realize, however, that you
cannot win a 1941 war at a 1914
pace.
1--WE suffer defeat after defeat,
and always for the same reason
lack of appreciation, lack Of
preparation and imperfect exc
cution Of the project. Each re-
verse is CLOSED over and
the narcotic of false confidence
in the future is invariably ap-
Piled
Hore-Belisha proposed recog-
milton of common citizenship by
Great Britain and the United
States as the most hopeful as
surance of the determination of
the democracies to establish a
new order"