Paraphrase of Code Cablegram
                         Recieved at the War Department
                         at 9:50, July 10, 1941
 
London, filed 15:25, July 10, 1941
 
     1. With reference to your cabled instruction to send foward the digest of General Wavell's
operations in Greece and Crete by mail, please be advised that it left here by air on July 2.
 
     2.  Russia.
     
     a.  Under the command of Genral Golikon, a Soviet military mision, containing officers of
all branches, arrived in London the night of July 8-9 and was welcomed with enthusiasm by press
and public.
 
     b.  Responsible informants here report that Stalin, in a conversation with the British
Ambassador on July 9, claimed that although the Soviet position was strained it was none the less
true that they had not yet set in motion their best defensive plans.
     
     3.  The following is a summary of British Military Intelligence information to the morning
of July 10:
     
     a.  Syria.  On July 4, British troops attained Kamichlive on the Turkish border in the
neighborhood of Tel Kfushek.  In the valley of the Euphrates, Empire forces reached Raqqa on
July 5.  A flanking movement to the east around Damour has placed the British in a position to
control the Beirut-Damour road.  On July 9, General Dentz, High Commissioner of the Vichy
Syrian Government, asked for terms of capitulation.  No reports are available here concerning the
provisions of the proposed agreement or if they have been accepted by General Dentz.