IN SYRIA.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1925, Page 2

IN SYRIA.

FRENCH ACTION RESENTED.

[”Th» Times” Service.]

this day at 8.50 a.nt.) BOX DON, Nov. 2. The “Times” Damascus correspondent says the city remains quiet. Tlio people are thoroughly depressed, but underneath keen irritation and resentment is apparent over the fate that has befallen the city. The trains have partially resumed running. One of the main bazaars has resumed business and the people who fled from the city are gradually returning. but if the townsfolk are subdued, not so the brigands, who are roaming the surrounding districts. None of the reads outside the city gates are safe. The French are doing their best to relieve the situation, hut must await heavy reinforcements from France.

It is hoped to plan a comprehensive enveloping movement.. The situation is rendered more serious hy the daily increasing strength of the brigands owing to the French burning villages wherein they are reported to have been allowed to take refuge, converting the villagers thus tendered homeless into brigands. Tt. is stated that now upwards of 80,000 tire homeless. TURKISH ACTIONS CONDEMNED. LONDON. Nov. 2. The “Times” in an editorial condemning the Turkish Christian deportations. points out that north and south of the Brussels line, villages have been cleared of population whose only guilt appears to be a desire to como under a British mandate. This action, whether officially ordered or independently undertaken, is lioth a broach of the Treaty of Lausanne and an affront to the League of Nations.