Word: tribesmen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guerilla type of warfare indulged in by the rebels has precluded a decisive French victory. The French have naturally been able to scatter the half-savage tribesmen temporarily with modern war implements whenever a battle of any size has been staged...
Cables from Damascus reported that the city was last week undergoing practically a state of siege. The French were naturally dominant in the urban quarters by virtue of their artillery, but encircling bands of tribesmen were said to have kept up a practically uninterrupted series of raids on the suburbs. By night large parties of Druses apparently attacked and destroyed portions of the waterworks of Damascus. Over 25,000 of the citizens were estimated to have fled at the beginning of last week...
...through the streets on camel back. Three days later the bodies of twelve Circassians (French irregulars) were found dead out-side the Bab Esh Sharol gate. Came night, and French soldiers were attacked and mutilated in one of the slums of Damascus. Came another night, and bands of Druse tribesmen filtered into the city. Three purposes have been ascribed to them: 1) The kidnaping of General Sarrail. 2) Revenge for the plundering of their villages by Circassian irregulars. 3) Punishment of Armenian Damascenes who were suspected of acting as a "fence" in disposing of the Circassians' loot...
Reports from Fez indicate that on retiring from Ajdir before the Spanish advance, Abd-el-Krim fled to the all but inaccessible Beni Arous Mountains, the most rugged of the Atlas Range. There, with his brother, Sidi Muhammed, and some tens of thousands of faithful tribesmen, he is reported to be resting and attempting to engineer more tribal alliances against the French and Spanish...
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...