THE SYRIAN MANDATES
AGREEMENT WITH FRANCE. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) Received January 12, 10.20 a.rn. PARIS, Jan. 8. The Temps understands that the main provisions of agreement between the Emir of Feisul and the French Government are as follows: The Emir agrees to France exercising a mandate over the whole of Syria, and France consents to the formation of an Arab Slate embracing the towns of Damascus, Homs and Aleppo, which will he administered by the Ami" with the assistance of French advisers and inspectors. In the region of El Bekaa, which is claimed by both Lebanon and the Arab State, the policing arrangements will be provisionally under the control of an Arab gendarme with French military inspectors. The definite allocation of the Bekaa region will he made by the Peace Conference, but it is probable that the claims presented by Lebanon will be accepted. The Arab Stale accepts the financial and economic collaboration of France to the exclusion of all other countries.
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Waikato Times, Volume 92, Issue 14261, 12 January 1920, Page 5
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