A FRENCH VIEW
REPORTS EXAGGERATED
Recd. 6 p.m. London, Nov. 14. rhe French commander in the Middle East told correspondents at Cairo that reports of the disorders In the Lebanon were greatly exaggerated. He flew specially from Beirut to meet the correspondents, fie said .that the Lebanese Ministers were arrested by specially selected French officers and not by native troops as had been reported, and he also said that the report that 48 deputies had been arrested put the number 40 too high. It is is reported that General Catroux has lert Algiers by air for the Lebanon after seeing Mr. H. Macmillan, the British resident Minister. It is understood that General Catroux has been given a free hand to settle tne dispute. The Egyptian Prime Minister said in Cairo yesterday that he could not feel easier till the President and the Premier of the Lebanon had been released.
lii Cairo, Egyptian students demonstrated outside the French Legation. Reed. 6 p.m. Rugby, Nov, 14. A special announcement made by a French official in Cairo to-day said that the situation in Lebanon was generally calm. To-day there is only mention of a procession of students in Damascus. Tnere were small riots at Saida and a manifestation in Beirut in which four people were injured. There were no important incidents in Tripoli.—B.O.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 271, 16 November 1943, Page 5
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