Word: damascus
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Safe at Beirut, noted Chicago Tribune correspondent George Seldes filed a sensational bit of news to the following effect: "The rebels at Damascus have threatened to disembowel me if I ever return there." In Manhattan, Gilbert Seldes, famed esthete and onetime editor of the Dial, received this news of his brother with many an uneasy qualm...
...PoliticaIly the Syrian mandate is divided into five territories: Damascus, Aleppo, Alaquite, Great Lebanon and the Jebel-ed-Druz. The first three make up the Syrian Federation, of 'which Damascus is the capital. The religious picture is somewhat blurred, but there are roughly about 1% million Sunni Moslems, and 100,000 each of Shia Moslems and Druses in the territory, together with some thousands of Christian converts...
...General Sarrail was reported in the French press as alleging that the British consul at during Damascus the had "nearly created as panic" during the recent French bombardment of that city (TIME, Nov. 9), and had sent distorted reports to London on the situation...
Cables from Damascus reported that the city was last week undergoing practically a state of siege. The French were naturally dominant in the urban quarters by virtue of their artillery, but encircling bands of tribesmen were said to have kept up a practically uninterrupted series of raids on the suburbs. By night large parties of Druses apparently attacked and destroyed portions of the waterworks of Damascus. Over 25,000 of the citizens were estimated to have fled at the beginning of last week...
Despatches asserted that outside of Damascus the French forces held a secure grip upon only six cities on the railway between Aleppo in the North and Dera in the South. The Druses were said to be in control of an area as large as the state of New Jersey between Mount Hermon and Wadi Ajami. At Aleppo Miss Elizabeth Sill of Pittsburgh, in charge of the local Near East Relief, was reported to have been appealed to for help and protection by literally thousands of refugees...