Newspaper clipping about General Allenby in Paris, 9 September 1919

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Jan- -namely, the sympathetic attanfimi ii  ™
mm M British Press has be*,n to ivo S      tT'H
K* 1 Jft» }*** ■**?■? of the gn,at F±!a VJnals
have sot forth our grievances and have appeSed fo?
-air play to their British confrere*        l V^m 10r
After quoting the; words of The Times, " There
must be a French mandate for Sjfeajand it must
(be our task to help France,! the Débats concludes :— Ï
tot/cofarse, this language of journals is not an act
k>f the Government, but it may announce such acts
lajid^W createsjva moral atmosphere which will help
anjpl even determine thfMwo Governments feos^ctâe
on'them.    Thepëxt few,weeks will tell whether this
flight of^swallows really|announces the spring.     •?!
IBMIR   SAID'S   ARREST.
|Pabis,  Sep*$- 9.—Sir Edmund Allenby,  in-
terviewed by several newspaper correspondents
at Marseilles, said that when he left Syria he
|wa.s   in   agreement   with   the   French   representative   in   all   matters   concerning   France
^and Great Britain. j
i\ He explained that the Emir Said was arrested
[purely on military grounds, The Emir had
Iworked against thé military administration of
the occupying forces in Syria and Palestine;
and had ignored all the regulations and defied
martial law. It£ was in virtue of this law
that he was arrested. |j
I Sir Edmund insisted oh the necessity'|of
^maintaining severe regulations in a country
Where the races and religions were different
and antagonistic. He declared his readiness
to set the^Emir at liberty if the French Government! decided * to have him expelled from
Syria, where his behaviour could only be productive of disorders He added that he,
(personally, had always done his best to facilitate
I the task of France in Syria.—Renierf
Ipabis, Sept. 9.—The question raised by the
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Lrrest of the Emir Said has been settled in a
satisfactory manner. The Emir is to be handed
over to the French Consul at Port ^aid, who
[^Will see that he is repatriated by the first
French mail-boat leaving If or Marseilles.—
Iflxchange Telegraph Company
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