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THE HARBOR OF BEIRUT, ONE OF THE SYRIAN PORTS WHICH HAS CAPTURED THE 



COMMERCE ONCE CONTROLLED BY SELEUCIA 



Eying 170 miles south of Antioch, Beirut is connected bj r rail with Aleppo, Damascus, 

 and Tripoli. It is the seat of the Syrian Protestant College, an undenominational American 

 institution with faculties of arts and medicine, pharmacy and commerce, attended by more 

 than 1, 000 students. 



