Word: atrash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Transjordania, Irak and Arabia (see map). They shouted "Palestine for the Arabs!," jabbered of Holy War and of the booty to be got by plundering expeditions into Palestine. Syria is a protectorate of France but her civilized soldiers have never been able to quell the wild, rebellious Sultan El Atrash who lives in a mud palace high in the remote mountains and sallies forth on sporadic raids at the head of his hard-riding, fanatical Druse tribesmen. Last week the dread Atrash was reputed to be rampaging toward Palestine with 800 of his own horsemen and 2,000 Bedouins...
Utterly different from bold Sultan El Atrash is the mild spoken little Amir Abdullah of Transjordania, a contented British puppet whose chief delight is in breeding priceless Arab steeds. Last week the Amir dutifully hastened across the River Jordan by means of Allenby Bridge, successfully dissuaded some 300 of his subjects who had set out minded to wage plunder in Palestine...
Significance. The Jebel Druses, numbering some 6,000 fighting men under command of Sultan El Atrash Pasha, have sufficiently demonstrated their ability to keep the 20,000 French and French colonial troops sent against them from pacifying Syria. It is conceded by experts that with 30,000 more French troops, General Andreas could probably wipe out the Druses...
...investigating conditions in the French Syrian Mandate. Promptly many another Deputy arose to question the Government upon its conduct of the wars in Syria (TIME, Feb. 15, et ante) and Morocco (TIME, March 29 et ante) by which the French are endeavoring to subdue the Syrian chieftain, Sultan El Atrash, and the Moroccan leader, Abd-el-Krim. Deputies of the Right thundered for more vigorous prosecution of these wars, which have simmered without notable engagements of late. Deputies of the Left howled for relief from war taxation through an immediate peace...
...pacifier extraordinary and conciliator plenipotentiary to the rebellious and half-nomadic peoples whose sporadic attacks make it so difficult and expensive for France to administer Syria as a League of Nations mandate. Last week M. de Jouvenel announced that he had received overtures of peace from Sultan Atrash, the warrior chief of the extremely turbulent Jebel Druses. The French peace terms were promptly announced...