STATE OF SIEGE
PLIGHT OF DAMASCUS. AN ANXIOUS TIME DRUSE LEADER’S OATH.
BY CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Dec. 4, 12.50 p.m. PARIS, Dec. 3. Advices from Damascus report that the town is in a state of siege. Sandban's and barbed wire block the streets, and French, troops and Syrian gendarmes are standing by. The Druse leader has sworn to he in Damascus when M. De Jouvenel, the new High Commissioner, arrives to take up _ his official duties. Considerable anxiety prevails. —Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 4 December 1925, Page 7
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