SYRIAN REVOLT
A DESPERATE DEFENCE (“Tinies” Service.) LONDON, November 29. The “Times’s” correspondent in Syria says: Details reveal that a mere handful of the French Foreign Legion defended Rachaya. On the fourth day two thousand Druses attacked the citadel, surmounting the barbed wire, by building a bridge of corpses over which they crawled regardless of losses and pressed hard on the defenders. The attackers threw small wooden ladders across narrow alleyways, and so 'cenriected the housetops. On these the bloodiest combats were waged, leaving the passages piled with dead. The garrison were at the last gasp when a salvo from seventyfives announced the approach of the relieving column.
RAILWAY BRIDGE DESTROYED.
BEIRUT, November 28.
It is announced tht insurgents have destroyed an important railway bridge between Homs and Damascus. French reinforcements are being rushed to Homs.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 30 November 1925, Page 5
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