COSTLY FIGHT
TRENCH LOSSES. m ACTION WITH DRUSES. MUCH CONCERN IN FRANCE. 8Y CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT PARIS, Aug. 8. A message iVom Jerusalem says tlias the French casualties in the recent engagement with the Druses were two hundred killed and six hundred wounded. Civilian traihc* between Damascus aaid Semat is suspended. The newspapers are perturbed over the situation in Syria. The Echo do Fariw demands the recall of General Sarrail. It says the Druses number sixty thousand and are supported by Arabs, while the French are .short of troops, having had to send reinforcements to Morocco. The Echo de Paris adds that Captain Garbillet. Governor of the Jebel Druses, exasperated the population by his vexatious ami arbitrary methods.
Le Journal asserts that foreign influences are responsible for the agitation, in which the Traias-J ordaman Minister, Rikali Pasha, played an important part. Le Journal says: “We shall probably be forced to give Emir Abdulla a lesson as severe as that administered to his predecessor Peisul.”
A telegram from Dei rut lsa.ys a French punitive column advancing on the Jebel Druses was obliged to withdraw owing to a sudden attack by Druses upon its transport.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 10 August 1925, Page 5
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