15 AUGUST 1925, Page 2

There have been numerous insurrections since the French accepted their

Syrian mandate, and it is greatly . to be hoped that the present one will be overcome nearly as quickly as the others. But it must be admitted that it is by far the most serious of them all. It was in. 1921 that France concluded a Treaty creating the independent State of the Jebel Druse under the mandate. The State has a Legislative Council and France appoints a Governor and an Adviser. After the death of the first Governor, France did not appoint a successor owing to Drusa objections, and the Adviser for some time controlled the administration. Later France appointed an Acting Governor. * * * *