WARFARE IN SYRIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 287, 7 November 1925, Page 9

WARFARE IN SYRIA.

VOTE IN FRENCH PARLIAMENT. CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT. PARIS, Nov. 5. By a more reassuring majority of 400 votes to 300, the Chamber adopted M. Painlcvc’s proposal to postpone Lbe debate on Syria until after Genera! Sarrail’s statement bad been placed before the Chamber committee. Tho vote is tantamount to one of confidence. since it was carried in the teeth of an oppositionist move to secure an immediate discussion.—A. and N.Z. cable. DAMASCUS ISOLATED. SERIOUS FIGHTING REPORTED. LONDON, Nov. 5. Reports from Jerusalem state that the rebels have formed provisional governments in several Syrian districts. Damascus is isolated from the north and south and all traffic and business have been stopped and the inhabitants are liceing. Refugees from Beirut report serious fighting on Tuesday along the Damascus railway, when French artillery and troops drove off the rebels.—A. and N.Z. cable. GENERAL SAR RAIL'S SUCCESSOR EDITOR APPOINTED HIGH ' COMMISSIONER. Received November 7, 8.5 a.m. PARIS, Nov. 6. Senator Henri de Jouvenel, editor of the Matin, lias accepted the High Commissionership of Syria in succession to General Sarrail. —A. and N.Z. cable.

ACTIVITY OF REBELS. SAR RAIL'S EX EC’J LYON DEMANDED. Received November 7 , 0.20 am. BAGDAD, Nov. G. The rebels have surrounded I loins Hama and Aleppo. The French are arming Armenian refugees to light the insurgents. Syrian notables are a). - peuling to the League o( Nations, tiomanding the oxec.iti m of General Sarrail as a murderer. - Sydney Sun cable.