INSURRECTION AT DAMASCUS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LIV, Issue 9024, 2 November 1925, Page 5

INSURRECTION AT DAMASCUS

account of the j using. Uy Tel. - - !'*■• Assoc. Copyright. AusT. .n .. Cubic Assuc. Louden, Oct 30. Xli« At' l u:11 ° Rests Jerusalem eor-jespomK-nt supplies the toll. .wing reliable actouitV. of the Damascus insurrectieu tom a Bmhh source. Xlie tn ,n p.s mi Oct' >i.er lib eni .Tnl ;i ..m.t with lourtceu camels, each bearstreti _ j,).. a Sviaan e<irp.se. 1 hose were dumpin die .Merdje Square lor public exhibition, Li. the .lead benio Damascenes i nraged iho populace and the D'Uso attack mi the 18th was i.y the iiisurrcctTmi of the city pope, tic Driis.- hands erecting barrioa<k"’ in ’lie -Moslem quarter and foil '■ i,,, P'' in ‘U Lenses. .pj ir (b la li an i fiery rcpurT uidi jy.Olivanl meat day and timid b.r sevmil days. v. !iil> nor ’planes assisted. Jin- 'Brit oh embassy was damaged by dell tire. The populace were terrm-rrii-l,eii 1 I tie diiiucrs of bombs and 'l'Jie eiiv is s-;j]l siiiDiildoniie. r |‘hr Christ iaa and .!< wish ijitaner, were out it ely w tin nnrey m the .Moslem population. Houses were damaged and many jK-uple were killed. French soldier, shot some Syrians in cold blood. In one ease six Moslems were placed J.rainsi a, wall and shot before a crowd r] umion and children. The casualties noro createsf among tin- Syrians and i lir .|ii,| t . -evera! hundreds of French. kebel deader, a h rested. Reuter's Telegrams. Cairo, Ocb 29 The newspaper, Oraraii, publiahes a report from Damascus to the effect Unit the authorities aricsted Hassen-el-Txarrath, who Jed the baud in the insurrection and furty-three other insurgents, while suburban residents were charged with connivance. Tho paper adds that three were executed. __ Paris, Oct 29 Advices from Beirut state that operations against the rebels continue. The population at Damasuis are returning to their homes. General Dupont, a member ct the Supremo War Claimed, who was sent to Syria on a special mission of enquiry into tbe re-cut ; wents, lias arrived at B:irut. Reo Nov. 2, 8:o a.in. Cairo, Oct SO. According m the Domaseus newspaper Omrian, die- damage done in tho Damascus bombTudment is estimated at£3,000,000. The authoritios are forbidding nil except women foreigners to' leave the city though 1 0, 1)00 have loft | since October 20. [ The executions eoulinue. A Beirut newspaper publishes a sensational report that 200 prisoners in the citadel at Damascus were .killed during the bombardment, following an attempt to escape. The guards wore attacked and ,several were killed,. THEN ('ll (ARE ARTIES IN SYRIA. Roc Nov, 2, 8.5 a.m. ( Paris. Nov. I. j A communique has been issued j wherein the Premier points out that the 0000 French reported killed in Syria, represents the total killed nd mi-wing since 1920, whereas the killed and .missing since the. outbreak of the present disorders only number 585, hardy half of'whom are French.