Word: dera
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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...
...dancing. Her acting was magnetic, and the audience was glad to have her on the stage as much as she was. Charles Purcell was well placed in the part of Anthony Stanton, the usual musical comedy hero, and his singing was far above the ordinary. Miss Ruth Collins as Dera Darcy, made an exceptionally beautiful fiancee...