BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS
[Australia & X.Z. Cable Association.]
A DEAD CITY. LONDON, November 1. The “ Daily Express ” understands General Sarrail’s indiscretions have not been limited to Damascus. The “ Express ” adds that information reached, the British Foreign Office last week that the Turks were given permission to transport five thousand troops across Syria to the Mesopotamia border. Britain immediately protested to France, but it lias by no means been made clear that France bad any alternative. There is strong reluctance inimical to her relations with Turkey. The “ Daily Express’s” Damascus correspondent says that Damascus is virtually a dead city. After sunset curfew is enforced tit nine in the evening, after which hotels and cafes are closed, and houses barred. A special court is trying suspects, and speedily sentencing to death those found guilty.
VANCOUVER EIRE. VANCOUVER, November 1. Fire swept a block in “ Automobile Row.” Seattle, on Saturday night. The damage is estimated at two milliot' dollars.
OBITUARY. OTTAWA, Nov. 2. Obituary— Sir James Longhead, Com •ervativo, aged 71.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 November 1925, Page 2
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