- TROUBLES AT DAMASCUS
... TROUBLES AT DAMASCUS A letter, dated December 21, sent by a member of the Presbyterian Mission at Damascus, to her father, a clergyman at Harlesden, says that as many as eighteen murders occurred in one month just outside one gate of the town. A Turkish officer while driving his wife and servant was set upon and killed. All the children of the nrnses have been removed from the mission school. ...