Show JAFFA GATE IN JERUSALEM passageway through which gen general eral allenby entered Is the real article writer says jerusalem has seven gates gales and a transportation problem handled at present ns as of old along purely east ern lines there are donkeys horses camels camel even carriages and the ubiquitous flivver and nil all that traffic concentrates naturally at the gates just as to increase its force water used to be made to how flow through a small opening in the old fashioned tide mills at home As for telephones who that can shout from roof to root roof and down the echoing street should trouble himself to whisper into a funnel my windows are well placed for I 1 can watch the crowd thronging in and out of the jaffa gate writes william D mccracken in asia this Is the widest opening the city has since william 11 II of prussia had it enlarged to permit his spectacular entry a symbolical pageant that lie he staged to represent his taking possession of the holy city by agreement with the sul tan in constantinople but wide Is 18 the gate which unto destruction the real jaffa gate Is a narrow one at the side of the wide passageway and this was the one used by gen allenby when uben he entered jerusa lem after its capture modestly on foot cai carrying TyIng the cane that the lie british officer affects as ills his only scepter of power tills this gate Is now closed with heavy iron bars and will not be reopened until the exact political status of jerusalem has haq been determined |