Word: syria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
French detachments in Syria have been sorely harried. Reports have been fragmentary and contradictory, agreeing only in presenting a story of native unrest and guerrilla warfare. Some 1,500 Bedouins were reported to have assaulted Damascus, been repulsed by French cavalry, to have prepared for another onslaught, to have captured an outpost. The French fort of Sueida with a garrison of 200 was besieged by the Druse tribe . . . An airplane endeavoring to drop provisions was shot down. Another dropped a bomb on a group of natives, reported 40 killed and wounded. . . A French General was wounded while riding...
...country, and of every Christian faith except the Roman Catholic) - that with just such a meal, the U. S. would celebrate Golden Rule Sunday on Dec. 6. By as much as rice and prunes would reduce the U. S. family budget on that day, by so much would Armenia, Syria, Palestine, Greece profit...
Traveling through Palestine and Syria, U. S. Senator William H. King of Utah at length entered Turkey, visited Konia, Smyrna, Angora, Constantinople. From the last place he began a tour of the Balkans, after many weeks arriving in Berlin where he visited his daughter, Mrs. Carl Fischer, wife of an able secretary in the U. S. Embassy there...
...Chief. After a not very successful campaign, he was recalled at the end of 1917; and in the following April was placed in the reserve, having reached the age limit. There he stayed until 1924 when, in succession to General Weygand, he was made French High Commissioner in Syria...