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Show SYRIAN REVOLT FAST S : ' Discontented Natives Force; French to Withdraw From One City DAMASCUS. Syria. April 28. The rising of the Syrian people agaln-st tho French, who occupy the country under mandate, has spread rapidly during the last fortnight throughout Byricla and adjoining states and Is assuming tho character of open rebellion. The Syrians complain of heavy taxation! and demand abrogation of the French mandate .md the right to Impo their own taxes . Damascus Is under martial 1 i The' minister of the Interior has resigned as a protest. In the district of Garabuls. the revolutionaries rev-olutionaries forced French troops to withdraw from Dair-Bl -Zor (Note The , executive committee of the confederation of Syrian commit-1 tees on May 13 addressed a cablegram to President Harding which said "Imperialists are making mandate people enslaved colonies." It expressed express-ed the determination of Syria to refuse re-fuse the mandate Ol France and asked for the help of the I'nited States to! this end Another message was seni1 to tho council of the league of nations at Geneva demanding the withdrawal of the mandate to Franco and that( French troops be removed from the country. Th.- council of the league has not yet passed on the quest ion, but Geneva Ge-neva dispatches Wednesday stated that France was expected to nsk approval of he;- mandate at a meeting of the council on July 15, as th consent of the I nited States under certain conditions, con-ditions, was expected.) |