FROM THE ORIENT by courtesy of robert irvine jr we have been enabled to peruse a letter to him from elder C U locander the communication was waa written at haifa palestine but he expected shortly to remove to the city of in the province of aleppo there he would be under the necessity of studying the armenian turkish and arabic lan an grages thence he would go to the island of cyprus first to lamarka La narka the capital then to mersina then through Tare Tar oos which is the ancient tarsus cyprus is the island that was purchased by the british government under the beacons field administration as a military base with a view to the probability of war breaking out by the reopen re open ing of the eastern question