FIGHTING IN SYRIA.
HEAVY CASUALTIES. Received July 26, 12.20 p.m. LONDON, July 25. • The Daily News's Cairo correspondent reports that Druses repulsed a French attack on the Ghouta stronghold, necessitating a retreat to Damascus.—Sydney Sun cable. LONDON, July 25. The Times’s Damascus correspondent states that the Druses lost 100 killed and 300 prisoners and the French (including tlie Circassian and Armenian auxiliaries) 49 killed and. 97 wounded', the dead including the brilliant Colonel Tvo airmen were compelled to land and were burned with their machines after making an heroic stand with rifle and revolver. —Times.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 201, 26 July 1926, Page 8
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