French weapons supplied to Iraq?

[magicdragon]

When reading the book “Iraq 1941: The Battles for Basra, Habbaniya, Fallujah and Baghdad” I read a sentence about “impounded French weaponry in Syria was secretly transported to Iraq.”

On a different website http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=98 there was more detail:

13 May 1941 A shipment of Vichy French weapons arrived in Mosul, Iraq from French Mandate of Syria, containing 15,500 rifles, 6 million rounds of ammunition, 200 machine guns, 4 75-mm field guns, and 10,000 shells.

26 May 1941 Iraqi forces received supplies by train from Vichy French forces in Syria, including 8 155mm guns, 6,000 shells, 30,000 grenades, and 32 trucks.

I have a question was this weaponry part of the inventory of the Vichy French Garrison in Syria or was it shipped to Syria directly from captured French weapon stocks in metropolitan France? If it got to Syria direct from from France did it come via Turkey?