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you found upon all the roads Turkish soldiers to that they stopped me every minute
ask my papers! Also then I could not understand that the worse ones had
happened. Gossips of the Turkish occupation of Lebanon clearly, had
contacts there first some weeks, but we had not believed him to us, as we knew
Germany and Austria were among those of what they guaranteed the autonomy
Lebanon. It was true, however; I discard him/it of paper that has guaranteed
the liberty of Lebanon had showed him of any more value to the Lebanese one
what it had that other discard of paper to Belgium. As I entered the
beautiful village of And-Damur, one of the most prosperous and enchanting
places on the earth, I saw whole regiments of Turkish troops they camped in
and on the village.
While I was watering my horse, I tried to ask questions from some
inhabitants. My blonde hair and complexion and my khaki custom did them
take me for a German, and they answered them me as soon as, but when I addressed
them in French their faces ignited. For Lebanon, it is for everybody
thousand of miles street from France, is nevertheless as a French
province. For fifty years the French language and the French culture it has
taken taking of Lebanon. Any French has more love for and the faith in
France that lies in the Lebanese hearts of the Cristiano. They has
not forgotten never that when you massacre you/they were threatening with drying out all the
Cristiano of Lebanon, ten thousand French soldiers swept on the
mountains to spread peace, the life and French gayety.
And when the poor people felt their language they loved, and when them
it founded out that I was the child of an oppressed community and it also ruined,
the whole sadness and the bitterness of their hearts were said me,--as the
Turkish soldiers had spread on the beloved mountains of Lebanon; as
the strong one, Lebanese young supporter had been brought away by the
mountains and convict in the Turkish army; as the girls and women were
hiding in their houses, afraid to be seen by the soldiers and them