REBELS BUSY
DAMASCUS PRACTICALLY CUT OFF FRENCH SHORT OF TROOPS PREPARING TO WITHSTAND A SIEGE By Telegraph—Per Press Assn.—Copyright Received Nov. 6, 1.30 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 4. The “Daily Mail’s” Damascus correspondent states that 4000 rebels arc concent rated fifteen miles south of Damascus, with a view to taking the city. Barbed wire entanglements and sandbag barricades are placed across every street, which sentries arc patrolling.’ Fighting has already broken out in the .Eastern outskirts. The French are critically short of troops, and cannot hope to cope with the situation until they have been greatly reinforced. Meanwhile they are raising Kurdish and other levies to defend the capital, which is practically cut off from the outside world. The rebels damaged the Haifa railway a few miles outside Damascus. The French have sent aeroplanes to bomb the attackers. People, fearing a massacre of Christians, are daily departing for Beiru:, guarded by an escort of former brigands, who are now employed by the French. The Aleppo railway was also ataeked.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19448, 6 November 1925, Page 7
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