BOMBARDMENT OF DAMASCUS.
ALARMIST REPORTS. FEARFUL DEPREDATIONS ALLEGED. (Australian and N.Z. Cabie Association), LONDON, Oct. 26. Tho National Political League, London, representatives of tlio PalestineArab Congress, received a wireless message. from Jerusalem stating because a Druse raiding party attacked and burned a. police post at Damascus, tbe French bombarded the city from the citadel for 50 hours, the greater part of the city being demolished and thousands rendered homeless. Thousands, of innocent persons perished. The French armed Armenian immigrants, who carried out fearful. depredations. The British Consulate is demolished. The French, are suppressing the news. Fugitives allege that 25,000 perished'. The Daily Express states that the Foreign Office has not received corroboration of the above report. It understands some rebels entered a portion- of the city and were shelled out by the French. Tlie British Consulate is unharmed. /
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16871, 28 October 1925, Page 7
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