DAMASCUS CUT OFF.
CONCENTRATION OF REBELS. FIGHTING IN”OUTSKIRTS. LONDON, Nov. 4. The Daily Mail’s Damascus correspondent states that 4000 rebels arc concentrated 15 miles south of Damascus with a view to attacking the city. Barbed entanglements and sandbag barricades have been placed across every street, and the sentries are challenging everyone. lighting lias already broken out in the eastern outskirts. The French are critically short of troops, and cannot hope to cope with the situation until they have been greatly reinforced. Meanwhile they are raising Kurdish and other levies to defend the capital, which is practically cut off from the outside world. The rebels are camped at Haifa, a few miles outside Damascus. The French have sent aeroplanes to bomb the attackers. Tho people, fearing a Christian massacre, arc daily departing for Beirut, guarded by an escort of former brigands who arc now employed by tho French. The Aleppo railway is also being attacked. —A. and N.Z. cable.
ACTIVITIES OF REBELS-. RAILWAY BRIDGE DESTROYED. Received November 6, 11.15 a.m. DAMASCUS, Nov. o. Rebels blew up a bridgo over a cutting on the railway to Haifa.— Reuter.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 286, 6 November 1925, Page 7
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