Vichy, Mar. 15.
Recent reports of disturbances in Syria were confirmed in a despatch from the Beirut correspondent of the official French news agency.
He said that demonstrations had occurred at Damascus since February 28 on the pretext of a slicht increase in the price of "bread," but all reports of bloody encounters in Syrian and Lebanese towns between the people end police are without foundation."—Reuter.
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