IN SYRIA.
[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] MASSACRE IX SYRIA. PARIS, .March 19. Fifty French Sengnlese tirailleurs who recently arrived at Syria and attempted to march to Rashays, through hostile Druse tribes, were ambushed and massacred. FRAXC'E IX SYRIA. LONDON, March 13. A Geneva correspondent states the report of the permanent mandates commission regarding Syria criticised ( France’s earliest administration, drawing attention to the lack of continuity l)f nrJicy "owing tin five ehajnges of High Commissiners within six years, j It attributes the revolt to General Sarrail’s heavy-handed rule and lack of sympathy and also to the defective monetary system based on partly Franco and Syrian coinage. France informed the commission that the poljoy was now directed to enable the population to exercise sovereign powers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1926, Page 3
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123IN SYRIA. Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1926, Page 3
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