Word: atrash
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...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...
Cables from Syria announced that the Jebel Druz Sultan, El Atrash, has resorted to the last extremity of resistance against the French by proclaiming a holy war. After issuing an order prohibiting the sowing of winter grain by men between 20 and 60 years of age, El Atrash called an assembly of the chiefs at which it was allegedly decided to excommunicate every Druse who should fail to devote himself to the long-standing struggle with the French (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante...
Travelers recalled that "Sultan" El Atrash dwells like a feudal lord in a tribal castle, "with walls more than a metre thick," which is perched upon a rocky crag of the Jebel Druz.** It has been alleged that he regards the whole Franco-Druse war as having sprung up because he killed a French officer "to avenge the arrest of a tribesman who was the Sultan's guest." Since that time (1921), El Atrash has employed against the French not only his temporal authority, but the influence of the religious cult which distinguishes his fellow tribesmen, a mixture...
...appeared that El Atrash, a feared and fearless chieftain, recently asked General Sarrail, High Commissioner of the Syrian Mandate, to remove an obnoxious tax collector. Not only did General Sarrail not remove the offending tax man, but he also declined to receive the delegation which El Atrash sent to him. Thereupon the latter swore that he would return with his trusty warriors...
...charged in Paris that the General, forewarned, had not forearmed, with the consequence that when El Atrash began to carry out his threat the French were driven from the Jebel Druzy?but not for long. With the aid of airplanes, troops regained possession of the district, driving El Atrash's followers over the border into Transjordania, whence the British drove them back into Syria...