SYRIAN MANDATE

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 2 November 1925, Page 11

SYRIAN MANDATE

EXTRA EDITION.

FRENCH DISSATISFIED. DIFFICULT AND EXPENSIVE. NO POSITIVE GAIN. BY GABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPY BIGHT. (Received Nov. 2, 11.55 a.in.) LONDON, Nov. 1. The Paris correspondent of the Sunday Times says that there is a growing support for the abandonment of the Syrian mandate on the grounds that it merely involves a heavy expenditure and difficulties not compensated for by any positive gain. It is generally felt that the tardy removal of General Sarrail was designed to save the Ministry, but the latter ftas secured a clean sheet, and will probably receive a severe shaking at the outset of its career.—A. and N.Z. Assn.

FAMINE FEARED. SUPPLIES OF WHEAT CUT OFF. Received Nov. 2, 1.5 p.m. LONDON, Nov. 1. A passenger from Syria states that insurgents occupy villages around Damascus, where famine is feared, as supplies of wheat from Haurean are now cut off. Bedouin tribesmen led the Ramadan Shallash gathering at Derrasul, near Aleppo, where the local Bedouin chief, Hajm, refuses to negotiate with the French. —Reuter. FRENCH LEVANT FORCES. REINFORCEMENTS SENT. (Received Nov. 2, 1.5 p.m., PARIS, Nov. 1. According to Le Journal, besides two cavalry regiments, eight more battalions of infantry, including two from Morocco, are being despatched to Syria, making the strength of the French army in the Levant five regiments of cavalry and 30 infantry battalions.