SYRIAN CAMPAIGN.
FRENCH TAKE STERN MEASURES BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. LONDON, Oct. 20. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that the French garrison at Damascus smashed the Druses’ rebellion with guns and tanks. Parties of Druses, helped by the majority of the Moslem population, barricaded the native quarter and started looting and burning various districts under French control. Their operations were momentarily confined to public buildings. The French military governor thereupon ordered the field artillery to shell the native quarter throughout the day, Subsequently tanks demolished the barricades. The insurgents, still holding a few isolated districts, despatched emissaries asking terms. Meanwhile the Damascus-Beirut railway .is interrupted. The French have asked Paris for 15,000 reinforcements.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HAWST19251022.2.44
Bibliographic details
Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 October 1925, Page 5
Word Count
115SYRIAN CAMPAIGN. Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 October 1925, Page 5
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hawera Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in