Show MASCUS AMASCUS NO NOW DESOLATE mm CITY thousands Homeless From rom Bombing om in DAMASCUS DAMASCUS via Courier to Jerusalem Jerusalem Jeru Jeru- salem Nov 4 United Press press press- fi Damascus mascus is quiet now after atter its recent recent re- re cent troubles and the French bombardment bombardment bom- bom of the city Yet there Is Isa isa a tenseness to the atmosphere that perhaps presages more tribulations fior for the Pearl City of the desert rough Through the ruins left by the bombardment sorrowing kinsmen Ere re searching for their dead while Hie the poor now facing famine are grubbing amid the debris of the markets m in the hope of finding f food od Thousands are homeless and many still are leaving the city inthe in inthe tl the e search for safer regions The homeless are huddled together in inthe inthe inthe the quarter Women omen whose religion demands th they y shield their faces from the g gaze ze t bf f man are fleeing unveiled a and d some of them are wrapped In mens men's mantles The French still maintain their barbed wire entanglements and Rand sand bags as grim reminders of the past and as a precaution for forthe forthe forthe I the future The authorities are pressing the city for payment of i i indemnity rifles indemnity rifles and money The money toll mounts higher as the city falls fails to deliver all the rifles the French have demanded Many prominent Moslems are being arrested including Tahir son of the famous Abdul Kabir of Al- Al geria gerla |