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Show . European Nations Growling Over Britain and France Seek to Discredit Native Vote For the United State. nt Natives Bequest For American Mandate May End European Quarrel Will the Question Split the Entente? One Chance to Prove Decency a Workable Basis For International Po 't in Place of Europe's Chicanery Turks Have Now Been Succeeded by the Britisfi, Zionists, French and Feisal, But ' Where Do the Syrians Come In? Their Demand Is For a Federal L I Syria, But Christian Lebanon Seeks to Avoid Moslem Rule by Submitting to French Exploitation. f , Vs. PMha, Commander of Turkish Forces In Syria Darin the War. His lyrta nioU Rule Has Sow Been Succeeded by tb Partitioning of 6yria Among tha Brit Uh, .tho Zionists, tha French and the Eralr iVUai. (Djemal Is tip Figure in tha light Uniform.) Mgr. EDae Howaycfc. Fairiairh of the Mar roc I to, Christians ta the Lebanon, Who Form the Bulk of Syria's i'nwli heats meat. Palestine the hintefland north of Palestine, The Feisal, Aorrpted by Syrian Moslems as Their Prtnoe. He ie the Figure ta Arab Drees, With , , the Black Moustache sad Beard. Standing on the Third Stop- - and be deprived of their spoil, Britain end France would troleura into Beirut, and began selling it at $4 the What happened? ' ONSTANTINOPLE, September v tin. Tho French who had been sailing J Cilicia, all of them .to be joined at Damascus tot the moment dispose their differences end effect five-gall29. What if about to happen to USELESSCONCESSIONS. J tha tin. Immediately placed a minimum would it at which Syria arrangement by .in a Syrian government. As to the power which ; a tha Ententa Cordiale? 37.25 on the American petroleum.- - tha of price willy-nillcarved be of imin the up The French and Arab claims cams into setting up they preferred to assist them Thi European brotherhood in ( ' ' The Syrian natives are willing , to . accept price to be valid as' long as the French supply their government,' no opportunity was given them mediate conflict. The French had been temporarily lasted. On top of tha fact that the change from arms has lasted out the t ir, but awarded the coast north of Palestine, and Feisal to voice an opinion until last summer. Before that Emir Feisal as their prince, despite the feet that will it laatf out the peace? . Turkish to the Egyptie piastre, which came the to but? Britorder in a prevent ' had been temporarily awarded the hinterland north time, to express a preference for any he is a foreigner from the Uejaz, with the occupation,' increased prices 1 4 times ia Tho necessity of a firm Inter- - - of Palestine. meant themselves. Palestine mandate is coast ish what in the use a without But of by deportation split among " national understanding, at least until Germany pays Beirut, the French have permitted the tramway the hinterland? And of what use is the hinterland the British, and to express a preference for any ON PALESTINE INSIST to increase its fares seven times and til her bills, is obvious. For the time being England, company ' without access to' the sea. Of what use is Beirut but a French mandate in the French sons north waterworks France, and Jtaly are compelled to stand, strongly company to increase Its rates saves Palretention of on to the French unless they can have Damascus? And of Palestine meanC a possible jail sentence on a ths They insist,' however, - times. ' - Moslems V to have ' more serious charges than Peace enforce the , together Treaty. of what use is Damascus, to Feisal unless he can trumped-u- p estine' at aq integral part of Syria. Geographicalcharge by the French, - this to bring against tha French. Last Easter 6a- But already even before the treaty with TurIn have Beirut? Accordingly, a situation has bpen Last summer, however, the American section ly and ethnographically, they are quite' correct key is drawn up, England and France are snapping day native Christians in' Lsdikia' made decnonstra- in which Feisal is at swords points with commission on mandates in Tur- -' thia point. The boundary line between Palestine and of the Inter-ailie- d produced and snarling over Syria. Doubtless the quarrel will tions in which (hey damned "the prophet aad the Frenchf the French with key reached Jaffa. For months, their coming had the "rest of Syria has aiwsys been a purely artiIwordg. be patched up before it becories an open rupture, the Cross into the mosques.' Tha Frsnall carried Feisal, and both of them are at swords points, been rumored, but no deflnite'announcement of any' ficial one. The notion, extant, In Europe and but In the meantime Americans' may draw their own with governor did nothing about it. The Frock military is the British. .Their common hatred for ths sort was made by ths British high command until America, that the term Syria excludes Palestine moral. Some day the chancelleries! of Europe may exercised have pressure of every sort to bring an understandable error arising from ths exclusive British however, is thinly camouflaged. The French practically the day before their arrival. The comlearn to found an Entente upon common decency. Moslems into line. They have even made Friday the mission was composed of Charles S. Crane, of ChiInterest Christians hevs in the Holy Lend end from feloss over, the situation because somewhere Until they do,' the present official day of rest for government offices in " the Entente Cor-diaEntente Cordiale is still supposed to be cago, formerly appointed as our minister to China, the psychological association of ths separateness founded upon international chicanery, will Beirut, despite the fact that the population of Eel-'r- ut in existence and Feisal glosses over his disillusionand Henry Churchill King, president of Oberlin of iU map with its separateness as a country, . doubtlese continue to squabble over the dividing up consista of 110,000 Christians and 40,000 Mosment because the British are subsidizing his govCollege, Ohio. They were the remnant of what had Geographically, Palestine is a continuation of the ' v. lems. of the loot. ernment and munitioning his armies. once been projected as a rest of Syria; its mountains, both on the western The present At present, Syrian sentiment against tka Syria forms a typi eastern-side- s of the JordsuvireAhe terrain- had The French intimated. British to atParis.and the commission.. are consoli Meanwhile,; trying cal sidelight on thTpresent Entente. It is of Is" such" that ni "peaceful settlement of tho Trench" MAH RU lTII k 4ka mmmi aatAtt a m m n miha am J. , Jl, a tions of the T uKa HAM and date themselves in Palestine by importing a Zioned interest because the southern portion of Syria, question is possible with a permanent Syrian the Jordan valley is a continuation of ths Bukaa ist population on whom they .can depend in the fuover Syrian soil. . Palestine, makes its own appeal to the hearts of French authority ture for a strong British buffer state before Egypt valley; and three out of the four sources of tho t in th matter of the British Christendom, j Jordan itself are in the rest of Syria. Ethnographi-callPalestine to the Zionists in 1917 and more is The moderate. Syria, before tho war, wag a part of the Otto-,ma- n They promised Syrians are under no disilthe inhabitants of the country fnom the kll the world applauded The world didnt realize lusionment with respect to Brittain's ambitions. They empire. There were no .Turks in it, outside Tauras mountains in the north to the Sinai desert know of .Turkish government officials, and the native Arab that the Zionists were a pawn in the British game that a British mandate in Syria is equfvm-le- nt ir. the south have a distinct cultural and historic in and British when even that the. Syria, today. to handing over the country to the BritLk. population only countenanced' their presence because . , , . there were not enough armi in Syria' to put an end tiiwn selves in Palestine are beginning io see the during which they visited, scores of towns and .homogeneity. They know that the British, once established ' la trouble which would inevitably follow any attempt hundreds .of villages, found that preference (or .They insist on the expulsion, bag and bag-to them. Syria has gained freedom from Turkish Syria, would never Jegve. They respect'the Bridi at the realization of the Zionist project, British po- an American mandate was universal, except in the gage, pf the French from Syria. "We will be led but .government as the resalt of the war, but whether they respect them for what their long reeort ' litical underlings' in Palestine are putting the soft Lebanon. 'Out of Syrias three million population, I the has jumped ?out of the frying pan intq, the by the hand, they say, "but not by the neck. roonr backward peoples shows them to be. They about half a million are in the Lebanon back of The record of the French in Beirut explains r rM--n I fire, remains to be seen. pedal on Zionism. When I first went to Palestine, rsaent the British, tha j ' The' Syrian population, is founded upon sn I was censored for attempting to tell the truth re- Beirut - j The Lebanon is in the French zone and, theii opposition. It begins at the beginning of the Zionist project which the British have wished onto war when M. Georgaa Picot! then French consul in - llem specting the Zionist outlook in Palestine. . Before while the rest of Syria is of an overwhelmingly Arab stock, but long admixtures of foreign blood without consulting them. They I left Palestine, it was intimated to me that an arMoslem majority, the Lebanon has a Christian ma- - Beirut, left for France upon the breaking of diplo-have today created a mongrel, type in Syria. Insothe Zionists as they arato tha are 0pp01icj far as the Syrian is an Arab, howeyer. he isatown" ticle dealing with the Tammany methods of Zion-is- ts jorityr The rest of Syria is determined to - include malic relations, leaving his secret papers in his safe thenv the Zionist movement is an la in Palestine would now be passed for pubii. the Lebanon in its federated Syria program, but at the French consulate. Six weeks later, tha Arab and quite distinct from the backward Arab agaj'ngt their homes in Pal satina. me(jillte xq Moslem I Lebanon anle rifled the safe, There are" not and the cation. fears do will into the Turks broke consulate, of the desert. He knows world affairs, he is an exevery Palestine which V portions large discovered (he names of 25 Syrian secessionists all this time, are wonthing to escape it! The Lebanon accordingly exThe Syrian? JDe.nb-'vcs-, cellent business man, and he hay been about the ! Are now arable, -- These portions at present an setpressed a preference for a French mandate.- - The-- , who had been active with the F ranch, and hanged world a bit. There are today 300,000 Syrians in dering where they coma in. t The Anglo-Frenc- h tled by Syrian farmers. They know that these por President 1916 them all. ' In consequence, the popularity of M. Picot to the United States and a large number of Syriai Wilson, regarding rest of Syria unanimously asked for an American declaratiop of tiong would be coveted for Jewish fanners, if tha mandate, declaration business houses 1 Beirut;' Tripoli and Ladikia have the Near East, and the Anglo-Frenc- h among .the Syrians may be imagined. On top of , Zionist project ia realized, and the result la that ' Already the fight has begun to discredit the this blunder, the French made the crowning blun- of November, 1918, promised them complete aubranches in New York and St. Louis. "There has they would he brought; out. Their 'determination been a steady flow of. population from the Syrian Britain, and France, both of whom der of returning M. Picot to Beirut as French high tonomy. But to them the British, the Zionists, the commission. to oppose tiie Zionist project is easily understand 'Lebanon to the United Stiate for the last 40 years, scheme to de- - refused to participate in this canvass of the Syrian commissioner upon the occupation of the city last French, Feisal and the Anglo-Frenc- h able. Great as is the wrong which the dispersion baa Go up into the Lebanon and look at the tach Palestine from the rest of Syria, are ail for- - natives, are already discounting ths efforts of the October. Since then the cost of living has risen d inflicted spon the Jewish people, the Zionist projroofs in ita numberless villages. The money to eign. -- Their program is a federated Syria, to con- - only body who thus far has made it possible for enormously in Beirut Early in the occupation, the ect would only right It by committing another m came from .the United" gist' of four states, Palestine, the coast north of the natives to voice their preference. Rather than Vacuum Oil company Imported a quantity"!' je- - wrong upon the native populatibn."" " " ' build .four-fi- f tha States. Go into the leading homes in Damascus, - What is the solution of the Syrian queetion? In view of the overwhelming preference of tha Aleppo, Beirut and Jerusalem. Their sons have been schooled at the American Protestant College Syrian natives, and in view of the Anglo-Frenc- h in Beirut America is a gospel in itself throughout declarations of 1916 and 1918, it would seem that Syria today. the only possible solution Is an American mandate. and died. . When the armistice with Turkey was signed last speed until they dropped is the mors to be wished, for the effect It (Special Correspondenea ) hla-to- chapters. Tb first Introduces as to (Special Correspondence.) This Without ths tunnels. Turkey-ln-Asi- a ONDON. Oct. 1. The tragic the tragic retreat of the Serbian na0. I ONSTANTINOPLE, Bept October, the force in military occupation of Syria would Is cut ultimately have on the Enteitfa Cordial. off. sesfrom by and except of Ralph Albert Blakelock. tion whea overwhelmed by Bulger in thovirtually The Taurus tunnels of great Ottoman vast ByrU, a as the British army. Britain at once began the tha province dark In is those Austrian. It widely doubted in Europe at present, whether days the, wonderfu Amerlcan artist Serbsthe Bagdad railway are com - had to leave, all lhey . had be-- .. -- the UrutedEUtes couid refrain Jn U.e adminiatSyria paying off TtswiTcommitinent eve on reason the .who lost hla Trains are now operathind home and country tho. Tha pleted. them for and ell" the the three barrier an effective from into apportioning against fiavs been playing parts of success, has a etrange, If not exact, majority of them hard.y escaped with tjon 0f a benevolent mandate ing frojn Haider Pasha, across the adequate communication between Confitam-botheir lives. This Serbian sculptor was parallel In London. now is threatening the disrupting which purposes of civil administration among themselves, thi and Befrom Pera towns. game jyst desert Bosphorus and the stantinople It la the case of a Serbian sculptor one of them. Ha got away With fils - the French and the Emir Feisal, an Arab from sections of Cpnatantinople, as fore the war, when work on the Chem-i- n rlhe Entente Cordiale in Syria. If is sincerely of which I am reminded. Let me tell wife And family. Hla material posd For Imperial Ottoman du BagMesoFeisal Arabian t iff aa-itho as Let Abtad villa me. in Tel far the Upper waa told to the Hejazgot the atory peninsula sessions and hla comfortable doubted whether, there can be any basis for intoraa-tion- al crosswas dad was begun, the Taurus me tell It with tboae decent reeerra home were left to the ruthleea foe. of - his share which into The secret a of virtue completion potamian valley. treaty or by i ed by a Decativllle. understandings beside the present hasis of light railway, the line to Mosul is an easy matter so which tipna which the tragedy demands, ft But be managed to save valuable sewaa hopelessly inadequate for tira British had entered with him in 1914. The beloved is his be tha and to It well that curities as concerned. sculptures. far publish might thievAy end chicanery. engineering lg the etreams of war traffic flowing namea would be te add to tha grif Kow he managed to fiy with all this not eo easy a matter so fa as poli- down French got their share by virtue of a secret treaty Mesoand toward If European diplomacy ia ever to be put upeto the Syrian of thoee who love him. which has al- I do not but I do know that h tics Is concerned. fronta potamian into which the British had entered with them in ready been bitter enough. And I am at least, know, reached tha safe retag of It wse the irony of events that the With plenty of forced labor at hand. a more decent basis than it now exists upon, HKia urc (bat no newspaper reader would London. Taurus tunnels should have been com- Austrian 1916. This apportionment foreshadowed the divis- the United State which will show the wmy. chose the moat diBo in ,tho second chapter we find pleted by'Qerman and Austrian engi- rect line engineers willingly have pain, inflicted Jor theTaurue tunnels, defor the km of Syria which the Peace Conference was later TurkCurlBritish neers two in the greater opportunity is offered the United States far mere satisfaction of a caunelee weeks before the him happily at home qnly much work might that fact the off spite had British for' over In When the. seemed ish picked armistice of last troubles October. All hla it, to approve. capltaf. showing the wsy than this opportunity of develop! been avoided by a more circuitthe war began, engineers were niehd have ' themselves 'Palestine and the Mediterranean Coast, Nor low tha name matter. It does st last. Hla securities were enourh Borne route. ous however, tunneling: a strong autonomous Syrian government aad tkea -- to the Taurus and work, waa begun on rot affect tho pttifulneas of the atory. foe him o keep hla wife and family -not have- - been avoided.- - sopt front the country. inchidi ngthe 4port 6f Haifa. The' French had purk- - I doe not make the factalea worth In comfort. Out thera In Serbia the greet system of tunntls which now could withdrawing the line alosg hy routing the Bagdad link up Bosanti and Kara Tounar. All Mediterranean CLAIR FSICa f . the war he had been a sculptor ct win of Syria north of Palestine, and the teliing. Maybe it may do good by which would nff the coast, -went on, war work tho was tha a Through tf good. ef to tnumptimtsttc wsrn'rf h'gh rvpiTtw.. RTOf of FaP Edward kfarskiSL) and Greeks 1919, by thousands of the Arab bad picked off the section north ' rrttrea.-(Copyright, Armenians, i arttas or toowillcoTdTf eareftf? 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