DISORDER IN SYRIA.
REQUEST FOR PROTECTION, TURKISH' PRECAUTIONS. / i United PreM A*mooim&<m— By, Btaftfi* Telegraph— Copyright. , . (Received September 10, 8.51 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, September 9. Disquieting rumours are current •with r*» gard to the unsettled state of Syria. Th« . Druses are- arming, and' it is feared that a massacre is imminent at Lebanon. The European Consuls have asked' that warships should be sent to Beyrouth Naziem Pasha, the Vali of Damascus, with two battalions, has been sent -to Bey* rcut to assume' direction of affairs. (The Mohammedans at Beyrout, on Se^> tember 6, attacked the Christians' quarter, killing ten, including one American, an 4 wounding ten severely. The British Consul at Beyrout has threatened to ask the American squadron to land marines in the event of a renewal of the disturbances. Beyfoukis a town on the coast of Syria, with a population of about 100,000. A few days fc ago^it was reported that an attempt had been made to murder the American Consul.)
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7806, 10 September 1903, Page 2
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