Oct. 30.
EveNTs at Damascus have directed renewed attention to the position of the French in Syria, and these in addition to the strenuous campaign in Morocco show that the War Ministry in Paris has its hand uncomfortably full. Syria has not been an easy territory for France to govern since the armist ice arrangements of 1918 placed it in her hands, and the present is the second series of military operations which she has had to undertake. In the first instance the population of the country could not understand why the French came there. The Previous military events in Palestine had laid the country' open to the British troops who had in no sense'to conquer it but!
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