France’s Wars

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVI, Issue 12, 28 December 1925, Page 5

France’s Wars

Agreement With Syria PERSISTENT REPORTS IN LONDON. PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT GRANTED. (By Cable—Preflfl Association—Copyright.) (Received 28, 10 a.m.) London, Dec. 27. There are persistent reports that a Franco-Syrian agreement has been reached on the basis of provisional government being granted, the League or Nations to arbitrate on future differences.—(A. and N.Z.) A REPORTED ARMISTICE. MOROCCAN REVOLT WANING. Paris, Dec. 25. Unconfirmed Damascus despatches state that the Foreign Office signed an armistice with the Druses, suspending ail Syrian hostilities. M. de Jouvenel admitted that there had been negotiations, but it is believed the report of the signing is premature. A Beirut despatch says the general situation in Syria is improving, the Damascus region being calmest. A new military post has been established in Lebanon following the complete clearance of bands from the Aleppo region, where two bandit chiefs were captured. Meanwhile Moroccan reports state that the Riffians, under Abd-el-Krim, are crumbling rapidly. Numerous tribes are unwilling to resume operations against the French, as evidence of which there has been the surrender of the entile Senhadjaz tribe, considered to be amongst the most devoted of Abd-el-Krim’s forces, to Colonel Nogues, who received the Senhadjaz machine guns and hostages. Ouezzan reports state that the Djebala tribe revolted and imprisoned several chiefs whom Ab’d-el-Krim, appointed.—(A. and N.Z.) DRUSES' RECENT LOSSES. BANDIT RAID REPULSED. (Received 28, 9.25 a.m.) Paris, Dec. 27. Reports from Beirut confirm the statement that the Druses lost seventy killed and 200 wounded in the recent engagements at Hasbaya and Fort St. Christophine. Bandits last night hastily mobilised under cover of a violent storm and swooped on to the railway station. The fire of the garrison held off the nutackers until an armoured train arrived and routed them.—(Reuter). FRENCH LOSSES IN MOROCCO. Paris, Dec. 25. During a debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the estimate^.for tho Ministry of War, the Under-Secretary lor War announced that the French losses in Morocco since the beginning of the year were 2640 killed, 552 wounded and 1220 missing.—(Reuter).