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Show IBS REVOLT FROM HE OF THE TURKS j Capture Holy City of Mecca and Besiege Medina, la- ! hornet's Burial Place. j LOXDOX, Juno 22, 6:41 a. m. Reports Re-ports have been received here that a serious uprising against the Turks is in 1 jTOgivsti in Arabia, ami that the rebels! have captured thy holy city of Mecca, i The London newspapers declare that the louellion is certaiu to have au n-i-1 jjortant bearing on t be war, especial I v as reuards the participation of Ttirkvy. ! The Post ays: j "The uprising is tine to recent whole- j sale executions of Mohammedan and Syrian notables and well-known re- j , li'fcious leaders, and also to the spread of a feeling that the Turks have abdicated their position as lie protector of the M oli r: in m en a ns and have become the vassals of Germany. The Graph'.- says: "The revolt is a smashing blow at Turkey, and the capture of Mecca is an event which will shake Turkish prestige to its foundations. 1 1 A ff enter dispatch from Cairo says the rebels, in addition to taking Mecca, I """ifp.vp .aptiuod Jiddah. the chier seaport j 'ur' Arabia, and Taif, sixty-five miles southeast of Mecca, and have pro-claimed pro-claimed iudependence. of the A nibs from Ottoman rulf According fo this dispatch, dis-patch, the grand shorn' of Mecca, the chief magistrate of the holy city, proclaimed pro-claimed his independent and m.'.s supported sup-ported by the Arab tribes of the west and central parts of the country, tie began operations about June 9, and won signal success. ft. is said the garrisons of .Mecca, .fJnfldnh and Taif surrendered, with the exception of two small forts at Taif, which are still resisting. At Jiddah, 45 officers, l-lnn men and six guns were captured. Medina, 248 miles northwest north-west of Mecca, which contains the to:nh of Mohammed, is closely besieged and all communication to Tfejas is in the hands of the grand sherif. It was stated in London that the rising at Mecca was ji receded by a eimi- lar insurrection at Kerbela, about fiftv-fivp fiftv-fivp miles southwest of Bagdad, in Mesopotamia, which is n sacred eifcy because it contains the tomb of Hfs-pein, Hfs-pein, a grandson of Mohammed, All the Turks wore driven out of Kerhela. The revolt, is the, outcoino nf the so-called so-called pan-Arab move, which has been paining impetus since Hn. It aims at the abolition of alleged Turkish misrule, oppression and ma 1-taxation, and the ejection of the Turks from the whole of the Arabian peninsula and at the 'formation of a great confederation cf Arab tribes. |