FIGHTING IN SYRIA
FRENCH SUCCESSES A VILLAGE BOMBARDED IN ERROR. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, Juno 5. In Syria, the French columns operating in tho Tyre region against the Mctwalis, who recently massacred seventy Christians, have swept the country as far as tho southern boundary of French territory. By an oversight a village in the British zone was bombarded and. occupied, but tho French commander has undertaken that this will not recur. Westward of the source of tho river Jordan a French column mot with considerable opposition, and had not reached its objectives by May' 25 tb. Large numbers of refugees have " fled into the British zone and refuse to return.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10609, 7 June 1920, Page 5
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119FIGHTING IN SYRIA New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10609, 7 June 1920, Page 5
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