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Show WAR IN THE HOLY LAND With the Turk on the run in Palestine Pales-tine and Mesopotamia, a part of the world which for centuries has been almost al-most lifeless in the work of civilization, civiliza-tion, is feeling the touch of modern activities. The Chronicle of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, dealing with the British advance In the land of the Sultan, says: Though Palestine and Persia are even further removed from the main theater of war than the Italian front, and though the Immediate value of campaigning in those areas is decidedly decided-ly less, yet the work which the British Brit-ish forces are accomplishing is of present moment and of great significance signifi-cance for the future. In whatever manner Germany and Austria may have benefited by the virtual vir-tual elemlnation of Russia, no substantial substan-tial gains have yet come to Turkey from the same cause. It may be that the extreme southeastern front of Rus- 6la has not been affected to the same extent as the Austrian and German fronts by the troubles In Pelrograd, but if Turkoy has been mllilurlly enabled en-abled to withdraw her troops from along the line botween Trebizond on the Black sea and the British linos above Bagdad, she does not appear actually ac-tually to have done so, and the presumption pre-sumption is that she is suffering from either bankruptcy or war weariness, and quite possibly both In the meantime, tho British are making great headway In Palestine, having pushed on to within striking distance of Jerusalem from throe sides, and if the present rate of progress pro-gress is continued it should not be long until the forces under Allcnby are given tho benefit of the pressure being exerted by the troops in Mesopotamia, Meso-potamia, and Turkey reduced to the necessity of suing for that separate peace which would be so welcomed by her people. It is also worthy of note that the Greeks are now co-oporating In the fight against the Turks, and that allied al-lied aerial activity has been resumed in the region near Constantinople. The war in Palestine is made of absorbing ab-sorbing interest by reason of the fact that battles are being reported from places rendered familiar by Scriptural reading. The silence of the centuries has been disturbed in many a musty, moth-eaten village by tho booming of modern artillery, and the khaki-clad warriors are tramping over the ground trodden by the Crusaders and hallowed hal-lowed by the footsteps of the prophets. |