The 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.
It appeared that El Atrash, a feared and fearless chieftain, recently asked General Sarrail, High Commissioner of the Syrian Mandate, to remove an obnoxious tax collector. Not only did General Sarrail not remove the...
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