SYRIA
FRENCH RETENTION DOUBTFUL. (By Telegraph.—Frees Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association). LONDON, September 28. The Daily Express's Cairo correspondent reports that France will be unable to hold the whole of Syria much longer. Already Northern Syria is largely under the sway of bandits. Even, the main caravan route Is closed. Business men from Beirout, who travelled through the Aleppo district state they were often fired on in that enormous mountain tract which the French forces are unable to efficiently control. The tendency seems to be toward France retaining Great Lebanon, and handing over the rest of Syria to the Kemalists.
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Southland Times, Issue 19634, 30 September 1922, Page 5
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101SYRIA Southland Times, Issue 19634, 30 September 1922, Page 5
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