US. Destroyers Sent to Beirut)
Washington, Oct. 21.
Two American destroyers have ordered to proceed from! Gibraltar, where the American destroyer flotilla has just arrived, to Alexandria for possible service: at Syrian ports and any action considered necessary for the protection of Améfican lives and property from possible attacks by the revolting Syrian tribesmen.
The request for the destroyers! game from the American Consul at Beirut.
State Department officials hope that it will prove unnecessary to send the vessels to Syria from Alexandria.—Reuter's Amerieaa Service.
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