15 AUGUST 1925, Page 3

In Paris much irritation was felt at the failure of

General Sarrail to supply promptly any account of what was really happening in the Jebel Druse. The Druses, having all the arts of desert and mountain life, are very difficult people to deal with, as the Turks know very- well and as the great Mahomet Ali discovered to his cost. The original stronghold of the Druses in the Lebanon became more or less pacified, of course, when an autonomous Government under a Christian Governor was granted in 1861 ; but many of those who did not want to be pacified or who wanted to keep their own fighting and marauding chiefs drifted away to the Hauran—the ancient Bashan * * * *