Word: jebel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cables from Syria announced that the Jebel Druz Sultan, El Atrash, has resorted to the last extremity of resistance against the French by proclaiming a holy war. After issuing an order prohibiting the sowing of winter grain by men between 20 and 60 years of age, El Atrash called an assembly of the chiefs at which it was allegedly decided to excommunicate every Druse who should fail to devote himself to the long-standing struggle with the French (TIME, Dec. 14 et ante...
...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...
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...
...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...
...charged in Paris that the General, forewarned, had not forearmed, with the consequence that when El Atrash began to carry out his threat the French were driven from the Jebel Druzy?but not for long. With the aid of airplanes, troops regained possession of the district, driving El Atrash's followers over the border into Transjordania, whence the British drove them back into Syria...