REVOLT IN SYRIA
END OF FRANCES TROUBLES
NOT IN SIGHT GREAT FORCE OF REBELS IN TRAINING London, January 20. The Haifa correspondent of “The Times” says that the end. of . France’s Svrian troubles is not yet in sight. The widespread and deep-rooted, character of the Nationalist movement is evidenced by the successive failures of the French efforts to separate the Druses from the Moslems. The dominant military leaders of the revolt are now Yehya Hayati and Mohammed Ismail. The latter is a graduate of a military school in Germany. He was chief of staff to All Riza Pasha, who occupied Lebanon in war. time. Hayati declares that the revolt is. still in its infancy. He is now training twelve thousand Drives and Haurams ready to take the field by spring.— “The Times.”
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 9
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132REVOLT IN SYRIA Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 100, 22 January 1926, Page 9
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