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It is reported that one of the first The new Cabinet has been com-acts of the new Government will be} pleted. to recall General Sarrail from Syria.
Cairo, Oct. 29.
According to a telegram from' Damascus the newspaper "Omran" says that on October 23 a communique issued from the British Consulate stated that the bombardment was expected to start again on the next day but that the Consulate] would do its best to send British subjects from the danger _zone. Later the same night the Frenen authorities announced that guarantees had been given of the pay:
Of the fines imposed on the city and therefore the danger of bombardment was temporarily over.
The authorities have arrested Hassan el Karrath, who led the band in the insurrection, and 43 other, insurgents, while 160 Damascenes and suburban residents have been charged with connivance. The paper, adds that three have been executed: "We do not know the nature of thei crime."—Reuter,
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