| Show IS ISRAEL SAYS ii JE IS DOOMED AN N AWFUl CATASTROPHE OPHE I OVE OVERSHADOWS JEWS NS OF PAlESTINE Tens of Thousands on the Point of Starvation in Holy City Noted Jewish Author Tells Mary Boyle OReilly Zion in Hands of Fanatical Army Which Must Have All the Food Massacre Probable By MARY BOYLE 0 OREILLY REILLY Staff War Correspondence LONDON England Feb 11 lt It Is isto to too lato late to save Jerusalem The Tho city held hol holy b by three religions will like Ilk Louvain become a 1 spoil of war Christianity for its own hl honor should prevent ent If lC It can one of the greatest ca catastrophes the world has ever cr teen seen II Israel novelist no dramatist pr president of Ito Ita Jewish JewIsh Jew Jaw ish territorial organization organization or or- wrinkled hit his dark brows A dt dreamer from the ghetto uncanny as a n gargoyle und and as un- un no manIn man manIn In England knows more of or ho Iho trat dY r developing de behind tho Israel ZangWill which shrouds Reflectively with pauses lor or or concentration concen concen- ho he continued Jerusalem lcm is unlike nn any nth other r on earth It IH Ite a Vast aRt asylum of or Christians Christians Chris Chris- Jews and Moslems Scores of them are arc teaching monks and ami nursing nuns hundreds of them orphaned children chil chil- dren from rom the Pogrom cities of Russia nula Among the Jews alone are aged men and women the grandparents of the worlds world's poorest peoples They have hare I I gathered l from the four our corners of or earth arth to find a real home where thc are arc not outsiders Their hope Is 18 to die In Zion I Their lays days are given gJ to prayer study and nOd dreams Terrible Fate Awaits Jews I Thousands of or these helpless people arc are supported b by pensions and offerings in Europe and America And since Au August the they have been cut or of off from the tho world It is Impossible to get ret money Into Palestine Old and penniless the tho Pitiful population arc are fated to suffer fear famine amine disease and death and death Tho lio Bol Holy City Is 11 an sIt annei camp Twelve e thousand Turkish troops are quartered red within the walls walia twelve regiments regi regi- ments hold the highway to Jaffa three ann army corps men ruen Turks and Be- Be donins are arc concentrated alon along the only I route running near wat water r. r Soldiers are arc I I everywhere c In August thousands of and nOd Jews were hero called to the colors I or compelled to pa pay exemption Since then t e every ry able bodied man between 18 and 45 hall haH bean called out a as af a conscript or driven en to unpaid labor for the tile armies Aged people and children are left unprotected In a crowded crowd crowd- ed with undisciplined fanatical troops dominated b by German officers who ar are ard apprehensive for their o own n The Arabs and Syrians are arc more anxious to toI I expel the Turk than to fight the allies Result The Tho tension Is intolerable I The Turks furk under German commanders command command- ers era are arc expelling or intimidating into flight tho the whole Jewish population In Palestine Thirty thou thousand nd ol old men tot- tot women un und and helpless children from froni the Hebrew and Christian schools have ned led toward Egypt Thousands arc are aready al alrea already al- al rea ready installed In the cattle quarantine sheds in III Alexandria Four times Umes that number will follow rollow Jerusalem Cut Off Oft From Prom World I But nut only the tie strongest can escape Io cehle children and frail old ople m-ople c can not travel far tar afoot And nd Jerusalem Is cut off are from direct communication with tho tha world A French company owned the only onh railway to t. the h coast const There areno arc are no trains Belgians controlled the port cities' cities tram systems The These e have been seized On Mount Carmel Mount fount Olivet the Mount of or Transfiguration military scouts watch the countryside Two hundred German lieutenants mounted on dromedaries drome drome- daries arc scouring tho tito country countr for or springs Two American warships are arc at Bey- Bey rout waiting for tho the inevitable Ine French British and Russian cruisers patrol the thecO cO coast Ct to Intercept Turkish troop troopships Zeki Pasha of or SyrIa proclaims from Crom Damascus that If the allied fleets bombard Palestinian ports Turkish troops will massacre both lens Jews and Christians Inland in Jerusalem the worlds world's most pitiful population are arc made prisoners by terror Thin and antI weak hundreds of aged Jews crowd the tho Wailing Place pressing against the temple wall t as the they chant their terrible fear lear that Armageddon has come a at t last last- British French arid RussIan Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian subjects have hae been carried crt into the interior as prisoners of war Since September there re has been very little food Now ow famine has come como There is only bad flour at Jaffa in Jerusalem Jerusalem Jeru Jeru- salem rice sugar bugar candles hard tack dried most of oC the staple foods are practically unobtainable What stores of ot food toOd there are have ha been comman comman- Starving Turkish soldiers have requisitioned the tho live o stock raided the shops for tor equipment and carried out a ahouse ahouse ahouse house to house search for or edibles Know They March to No 10 quarter can be hoped for tor or from tho the Eighth lighth army corps The These e soldiers have o been ordered on a desperate campaign campaign cam eam- and they know that tile the they are als marching to The soldiery soldiery sol sol- sol sol- dle diery arc are In uniforms of ot summer khaki arid and aro are dying of cold In Jn the on Mount Lebanon Two solders In three are arc without culp- culp ment All arc are half starved tarv d in the tho midst of or i a hostile fellaheen peasantry It If British troops land In PaIE Palestine SyliS peasants will wUl rise against the able Turk Drought Is certain to toll follow ow The Germans have ha seized the water to tighten their hold on the eH city Du Duing lag ing February wells t rapidly rapid run dry dO wa side pools are aro salt and undrinkable uD o. Fever Feer follows famine Carnine Smallpox aj ai Russian Influenza is Tho The Holy Land is one of or the world worM cockpits It Is the point t I Europe Europ Asia and Africa 4 The right way across Palestine imperils threatens Sue Suez and th the way lo to Great Gre Britain will light fight desperately f I Pal Palestine During DurinS years France has b been en t 1 protector of ot the Christians in the tho Nc East France will surrender only overwhelming o force Ru Russia sla holds hold mo me property and sends more pilgrims to t sacred d sites Ites than all the nations add together Russia will not rh dream of ot possessing Jeru Jerusalem alem while ahas s a has a gun or a n man In S Syria The Crimean war at the ma mager mager g ger r of ot Bethlehem Armage Armageddon s 5 sn Jerusalem the city of the donl doul peace War to Death in Holy Land And Germany will dU fight to the d de per finish Four Faur hundred German c dominate the Turkish arm army general Pasha is m merely rel a a. ca paw General and Ge oral eral on von Zeki Bey go of oC Jerusalem has lias been ed b by General inn The Germans alone alono know the tho ml of oC wealth In t Palestine t mines o of phosphorus and wells of ot bit men and petroleum about the Dead t a aGerman German colonies command the tite roads and railways German flannels control the banks b. The Th Jaffa and t Damascus gates ate of J Jerusalem arc are co ce b by fortress s hospices wh preparedness the at allies s have ha 3 to learn lear Tho The pilgrim kaiser built bun Mount Olivet a n chime tower wh commands every cr military approach to t tHoly tHoly Holy City City- Beside that war vr tower a overlooking o Mount O nt Zion the te German German e perot built bul an Imposing place palace For f I Iteen teen years this burnished Iu hJ he pital has stood empty empt but tended ended I |
