UNREST IN SYRIA
DAMASCUS UNSAFE
CONSTANT PERIL OF RAIDS
BRIGANDS ENTER TOWN WITH
IMPUNITY.
(UNIUD PRESS ASSOCIATION^-COPimOHT.)'
(REUTERS TELEGRAM.)
(Received Ist February, noon.)
DAMASCUS, 31st January
Despito the precautions taken by the French authorities, brigands still enter the town with impunity. Raids, accompanied by shooting, are of daily occurrence. At present it is not safe to move about the native quarter owing to, the danger of firing breaking out at any moment. Recently brigands penetrated the Amara quarter, near the Christian quarter, and kidnapped the brother-in-law of the president of the Damascus municipality. They are holding him for a ransom of £500 gold.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 5
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103UNREST IN SYRIA Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 26, 1 February 1926, Page 5
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