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Death in Damascus. In all of Syria and Lebanon, the French had only five or six battalions when the riots started. But the French set their hated Senegalese troops to "restoring order" with the utmost violence. By last week Horns, Hama and Aleppo were under control, twelve French soldiers and several hundred Arabs had been killed before, in the words of a French communique, "at Damascus it was necessary to use artillery...
...came the explosion. In Damascus and Aleppo anti-French riots broke out. Scores of people were killed or injured. In Beirut French shops were burned. (British stores in the same blocks were spared). Strikes spread, markets closed. Nervously, the French explained that the Senegalese had arrived because the Levant was now a French redeploying area for the Far Eastern war. Cried The Lebanon's Premier Abdul Hamid Keramy: "The French think that with their armies they can deprive us of our independence. . . . They can cut off our heads and destroy us, but they cannot touch our independence...
...that only power counts is what set him on his vicious trail of plunder, loot and robbery, brought him dubious fame and control of 18 villages-one for each wife-and wealth which he is sinking into Turkish gold and British sovereigns and real estate in Latakia, Damascus and Aleppo. Thus it is that, backed by 15 or 20 thousand rifles, he could proclaim himself 'god' and make the people believe...
Right now Aldridge is assigned to Teheran in Persia at Russia's back door-with a beat that might call for his jumping almost a thousand miles west to Aleppo or south to the Indian Ocean. Last month he took a 560-mile trip north to the Caspian and the Soviet border-along the dusty, rutted highway that is now Russia's "Burma Road." Near the Lake of Urmia, at Tabriz, he saw U.S. sergeants more than 12,000 miles from home helping Soviet workmen assemble army trucks-later talked with Red Army officers and men moving around...
...Captured Aleppo and 300 German planes at the airport there...