Word: druses
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Having captured the Druse capital of Suedia (TIME, Oct. 5), General Gamelin, the French commander, proceeded to blast it into complete obliteration with every engine of scientific destruction at his command. Alleging that every house had been filled with snipers at the time of their entrance into the city, the French proceeded to dynamite countless ramshackle structures...
Last week the French captured Suedia, capital of the Jebel Druse, and relieved a French garrison, which had held in a state of seige by the natives there for 66 days. Sultan Atrasch followed by thousands of his tribesmen fled to the hills. In Paris there were rejoicings at "the beginning of the end of French troubles in Syria...
French resistance to Pan-Arab Druse attacks while the French offensive in Palestine is being prepared, were again picturesquely envisioned by Correspondent George Seldes* (Time, Sept...
...There was a battle of cavalry against barbed wire, of riflemen against machine guns, of 2,000 pagan tribesmen against a mere 10 French. . . Ignorant and heedless the Druse horsemen charged the barbed wire . . . pennons and war flags flying . . . Their horses were caught, slashed ... a hellish scene of carnage . . . men and blood mingling amide stones and barbed wire...
After describing the concentration of French troops, planes and armored cars at Suedia, (on the seacoast due west of Aleppo) and the raking of Druse villages by French 75's, Correspondent Seldes added specific details. He spoke of "pagan tribesmen riding horses like mountain goats" and of "a Druse gendarme who welcomes Americans because he had relatives who rode in Barnum's circus." Beside a Greek ikon in a native stone hut, he found "a faded lithograph of Lillian Russell† in tights...