Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches from Syria spoke of preparations by General Sarrail (TIME, Aug. 17) to launch a great French offensive against the Druse tribes, which have been fighting valliantly to oust the French Mandate and set up a pan-Arab Government at Damascus...
French detachments in Syria have been sorely harried. Reports have been fragmentary and contradictory, agreeing only in presenting a story of native unrest and guerrilla warfare. Some 1,500 Bedouins were reported to have assaulted Damascus, been repulsed by French cavalry, to have prepared for another onslaught, to have captured an outpost. The French fort of Sueida with a garrison of 200 was besieged by the Druse tribe . . . An airplane endeavoring to drop provisions was shot down. Another dropped a bomb on a group of natives, reported 40 killed and wounded. . . A French General was wounded while riding...
...cost of maintaining a mandate was counted by the French in Syria when, for the fourth successive August, El Atrash Pasha, so-called Sultan of the Jebel Druzy area to the south of Damascus, bordering on the Arab State of Transjordania, attacked French native troops, inflicting upon them a severe defeat...
...Dream and Moses The Lawgiver; on Good Friday, on the Mount of Olives Gethsemane; at Bethlehem, in the Church of the Nativity, on Easter Saturday, The Prince oj Peace; on the Mount of Olives, on Easter, The Great Commission of Christ; in Samaria, Noaman the Leper: at Damascus, Paul's Heavenly Vision; etc., 16 addresses...
Over the border in Syria (French mandate), whence the Earl had gone presumably at the invitation of the French, things were different. At Damascus, a furious mob twice attacked his hotel. The second onslaught, which started in "The Street That is Called Straight," almost ended in disaster, for when the gendarmes had nearly been overpowered French troops appeared and spanked off, with the flats of their swords, the seething crowd, which was yelling "Down with Balfour...