Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Results. Acting upon information received from their consuls at Damascus, both the U. S. and the British Governments were reported to have made "unofficial representations" to the French Foreign Office, demanding that the life and property of their nationals in Syria be protected. Premier Painleve and his Cabinet, realizing that some action must be taken, then "summoned General Sarrail to report on conditions in Syria, at Paris." Competent observers opine that a "Civilian Governor" will replace the "Military High Commander in Syria"; and that under cover of this "change in policy" Sarrail will be got out of the way without...
...annoying" or "scandalous" events marked the bombing and shelling of Damascus, "oldest inhabited city in the world," by order of General Maurice Sarrail, French High Commissioner in Syria. Impartial witnesses placed the human loss at 1,000 lives, the property damage at over $10,000,000. L'Echo de Paris cried, last week: "General Sarrail is a senile, stupid, brutal sadist ... a criminal ... a bloody tyrant!" Meanwhile the delicacy of M. Painleve's position was rendered acute by the fact that M. Herriot, leader of the Radical-Socialists,* declared a few months...
...Outbreak of the Trouble was officially but vaguely reported by General Sarrail: "A rebellion was started in Damascus by Druses, Pan-Arabs and Communists. . . . After attacks on the Christian settlement . . . French troops bombarded the main thoroughfares. . . . The situation is calmer...
Cables from various impartial witnesses, the accounts of fleeing refugees, and the official reports of foreign consuls stationed in Damascus, all placed an utterly different face upon the matter...
...appears that General Sarrail, by way of intimidating the anti-French populace of Damascus on his return from capturing Suedia (TIME, Oct. 5), ordered that the corpses of various brigands whom the French had shot down should be paraded through the streets on camel back. Three days later the bodies of twelve Circassians (French irregulars) were found dead out-side the Bab Esh Sharol gate. Came night, and French soldiers were attacked and mutilated in one of the slums of Damascus. Came another night, and bands of Druse tribesmen filtered into the city. Three purposes have been ascribed to them...