Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-24 | Page 6 | Turkish Rule Ends

TURKISH RULE ENDS. Genera! Allenby has put ?n nd to Turkish rule in Palestine, and we do 1 not believe that country will ever again come under the sway of the sul j tan. For centuries the I'hri-tians and .rows have been tubicctcl t0 Indignities Indigni-ties and at various times h.-r. e be-, n slaughtered by the Moslem fanatics, i For ages the Christian nations of Europe rrive watched one mas.-aere follow fol-low another, without doing anything more than make weak protests. European Euro-pean statesmen have been too bn-y 'beckmating ea'h other and making plans to increase the wjwer and pre.n tige of their own countries to take anv decided snp- jn beha'f" of the weak nrul opprosseJ in Aia. Now the time (a a come when it is possible tn redeem !:- Holy Emd, and it will be done. The Kntf-h commander lias won a; great, victory. Th main Turkish form. I consisting of IS'OO men, has been c;,p. lured, together with more than 100 guns, j The campaign in this vicinity is over, I :md grat praise is rlur I ),c soidlifrs who ; hav eDdored the 'burning heat of tlie j do-ert ant puffer". 1 nlmrr-t incredible1 hardships in order to wre-t control of j 'be Holy Land from tli" misrule of thf Turks. One of the rno-t remarkable j things in connection with llericral 1 txnby's virtory i- the fact that Ka-'t ihdirui troiip-, who plot.----, iiic Mohnm-'iw-.Jan rcliLMon. bciped rjci'cat lluir. Tiirlii.'li brethren of the .ame faith. Tli" 1 Aiiiby a! o r'li'ie'cf a ist a nee. It i "liercjore berorne. evident thai cv"f if! : lie sultan continues to rule the icm-' icm-' 1 n j 1 1. of the Turki-h people, be no j Mijgcr hold sway n'. i r a'l the f,, !lov."cr of the iiophet. Main n et v.a- an A r:i liian, horn in Mecca and buiied at Mr-djna.. Mr-djna.. The. firut, caliph' ".ere Arab', ) arid it '.'. a i Omar who eaptmed .Icru a- j 'em and 1 ia fiiacu . A rail f.upicma v did no! la I . civ . cc', thf; pccf.tcr w,ott pa- ing to .'i d '' ' riHVty of f'er'ian". In the nmr c of Mine the Turk? :'a,nc e,,i,irol of tlie j Mohammedan world, and for centuries 1 the sultan 's word has been law. ioou I after the outbreak of the present con-, con-, l'lict an effort was made to bring on a ''holy war." which would have meant an indiscriminate slaughter of the Chris-; jtians and -lews all over Asia, where f the followers of Mahomet were strong enough to take the offensive. Instead 'of taking part in the proposed butch-! butch-! cry. the East Indian Mohammedans re-'tnained re-'tnained loyal to Great Britain and went forth to battle against the Germanic ! powers, Bulgaria and Turkey. The j Egyptian Mohammedans pursued the j same course. In addition to this, a considerable con-siderable number of Arabs revolted and set up the ancient standard of the fjirh. So the sultan is certain to be I shorn of both political aud spiritual i power when the curtain is rung down ion the present world tragedy. These j things were hound to occur in the course 'of time, so the sultan has only hastened them bv espousing the cause of the i kaiser, and now that the goal is within with-in sight, we suppose the Christians and .lews of Asia Minor are glad indeed that the Christian powers were given an excuse to clean up one of the plague spots of the world. The work was done by the British, who have once more given the world an exhibition of bulldog bull-dog tenacity.