Word: hama
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...daily in guerilla attacks upon the French Army of Occupation. For eight months the French garrison at Damascus has bombarded that city or its environs almost nightly (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq.). Scarcely a morning dawns that French airplanes do not drone aloft to release bombs. At Aleppo, Horns, Hama, Seraand, Suedia and Salkhad other French garrisons defend themselves by similar means. French semi-armored trains and auto-convoys ply with grim regularity this sea of revolt. When a lone Frenchman ventures forth, a scimitar flashes or a crudely cast bullet dumdums into his flesh. But Syria is far from...
...fire destroyed 750 temporary barracks in the grounds of the Hama Palace. In those barracks lived some 5,000 earthquake victims. All were again made homeless, except those few who perished...