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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...
...States of Arabia: Kingdom of Iraq; French Mandate of Syria; Kingdom of Hejaz; Emirate of Nejd_and Hasa; Emirate of Jebel Shammar; Principals of Asir; Imamate of Yemen; British Protectorate of Aden; Sultanate of Oman; Sultanate of Koweit; Emirate of Kerak; Emirate of Bab-el-Mandab; Emirate of Lahj; State of Hadramaut; Emirate of El-Mohammerah; Emirate of Bahrein...
...debate over Article X was lively. Isahn Bey, deputy for Jebel Bereyet and President of the First Tribunal of Independence, declared that resistance to the admission of women to equal rights was foolish, as in ten years women would certainly be members of the Assembly...