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Show TURKS IN SYRIA JUtEWGANT Nationals of Entente Powers Treated With Great Rigor in Syria. Alexandria. Feb. 18, via London 7 10 a. m. Passengers by the American Amer-ican cruiser Tennessee which has been bringing refugees from the coast of Syria to Egypt are authority for the statement that while no actual atrocities have been committed by the Turks In Syria a number ot per tons have been maltreated. The pop-ulatlou pop-ulatlou of Syria, although fanatical, la remaining calm The Tennessee arrived here yester day from the Syrian coast. Refugees on board siy that Hassan Bey the commander at Jaffa has a rather overbearing manner and that he treats nationals of the entente powers with great rigor. Reports of a Turkish victory in Egypt, printed in letters of gold, have been posted In Jaffa. The people have been told tnau Ismalia and Suez have been occupied by the Turks who are now marching on Cairo Graphic descriptions of the alleged sinking of several British cruisers in the Suez canal caused the greatest jubilation. The Turkish casualties cas-ualties in these engagements were given as ten men "killed and twenty-five twenty-five wounded. There was great rejoicing also at Jerusalem where a large amount of ammunition was expended in the firing fir-ing of guns to celebrate the event. Nationalists of the entente powers, Great Britain, France and Russia, were insulted by the populace and compelled to remain Indoors Six wounded German officers have been brought to Jerusalem where Bach Pasha, the German commander, has his headquarters. Some of the Arabs rebelled against the recruiting order and several of 1 them had to be shot before they would advance. It appears, according to the information brought by these refugees that while. Constantinople v3s anxious to attack Egypt the Germans Ger-mans desired merely to menace the Rntish and compel them to hold troops In Egypt. The Germans who participated in the fighting still spua of the hardships of the trip across th desert, and some of them expressed ex-pressed the opinion that Turkish success suc-cess was Impossible. It is said there were six hundred German officers and men In the Turkish army which undertook un-dertook the expedition to Egypt. This army consisted of seven thousand veil trained Anatolians, with a num ber of Arabs and Bedouins All the refugees on the Tennessee were Israelites no Christians being ! allowed to leave. |