DAMASCUS DAMAGED.
SHELLFIRE AND LOOTING.
LONDON, October 26
The National Political League Lou don representatives of the Palestine Arab Congress, has received a wireless message from Jerusalem, stating that because a Druse raiding party atacked and burned a police post in Damascus the French bombarded the city from the citadel for 50 hours. The greater part of the city was demolished, thousands of innocent persons perished. The French armed Armenian (immigrants, who carried out fearful depredations. The British consulate was demolished. The French are suppressing news. Fugitives allege that 25,000 women perished.
The "Daily Express” states that the Foreign Office has not received corroboration of the above report. It understands that some rebels entered a portion of the city and were shelled out by the French. The British consulate was unharmed.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXII, Issue 48, 28 October 1925, Page 3
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