The assassination early this month of Shabander, pro Ally Syrian Nationalist moderate leader, portends further trouble in Syria, competent sources said here today. These quarters said the killing was the work of the Nazi center founded in Teheran by the former German Minister to Iraq.
According to these sources the Germans took advantage of the turmoil caused in Syria by the collapse of France to spread numerous tendentious stories, including a report that Britain was about to make peace. The situation became so difficult that the French Command issued an order to shoot as deserters any soldiers proceeding to Palestine to join the British forces. Many French officers, anxious to return to their families, reportedly sold their arms to natives to obtain the necessary funds, it was said.
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