SYRIAN AFFAIRS.
FRENCH REVERSE. [Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.] (Received this dav at 1,0 p.m.) LONDON, July 25. The “Daily News” Cairo correspondent reports the Druses repulsed a French stronghold necessitating a retreat to Damascus. LONDON. July 25. A Damascus correspondent states the Druses lost a hundred killed and three hundred prisoners and the French (including Circassian and Armenian auxiliaries) forty killed and ninety-seven wounded, the dead including the brilliant Colonel \ ig. 'I wo airmen were compelled to land and were burned with their machines alter making an heroic stand with rifles and revolvers.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1926, Page 3
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93SYRIAN AFFAIRS. Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1926, Page 3
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