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...annoying" or "scandalous" events marked the bombing and shelling of Damascus, "oldest inhabited city in the world," by order of General Maurice Sarrail, French High Commissioner in Syria. Impartial witnesses placed the human loss at 1,000 lives, the property damage at over $10,000,000. L'Echo de Paris cried, last week: "General Sarrail is a senile, stupid, brutal sadist ... a criminal ... a bloody tyrant!" Meanwhile the delicacy of M. Painleve's position was rendered acute by the fact that M. Herriot, leader of the Radical-Socialists,* declared a few months...
...Sarrail is under our protection, and anyone who touches him will have to answer to us!" While Cabinet and Premier wrestled with the question of what attitude to take, gradually clarifying despatches reached Paris...
...Outbreak of the Trouble was officially but vaguely reported by General Sarrail: "A rebellion was started in Damascus by Druses, Pan-Arabs and Communists. . . . After attacks on the Christian settlement . . . French troops bombarded the main thoroughfares. . . . The situation is calmer...
Despatches from Syria spoke of preparations by General Sarrail (TIME, Aug. 17) to launch a great French offensive against the Druse tribes, which have been fighting valliantly to oust the French Mandate and set up a pan-Arab Government at Damascus...
...greatest success in the World War was in 1914 before Verdun. Ordered to fall back, he refused. His refusal allowed Marshal Joffre to stage a counterattack on the right flank of Sarrail's command and the engagement ended in the saving of Verdun. Had not Sarrail disobeyed orders, the course of the War might have been very different...