22 AUGUST 1925, Page 2

It is good news that the Druse rebels have raised

the siege of Sueida as a result of negotiations with the French. Both sides liberated some of their principal prisoners. Captain Carbillet, who was the Acting Governor of the Jebel Druse and whose tactlessness is alleged to have caused all the trouble, has been removed from his position. The French are to be congratulated on having behaved very sensibly and on having come out of the immediate trouble more quickly than last week seemed possible.

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