Daily British Whig (1850), 25 Oct 1919, p. 16

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THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG LATEST PHOTO OF GERM AN EX-CROWN PRINCE AND FAMILY AT WIERINGEN. On The Outposts of Empire The Strange Story of a British Soldier Who Served Great Britain in the Far East. The railway station at Ismailia is jspitans had been unable 'not an imposing structure but then |plish in centuries of you don't expect marble pillars and tesselated- tiles, elevators and run- ning-water-in-every-room, in the de- pot of a trading post in the Eastern | ing Sudan. Moreover, as a rule, the plat- | in Arabia forms and the lean-to are deserted at the ad of an army of fhetween trains' evap in war time, {wild Bedouins somewhere n save for an occasional stray beggar | tracklass deserts of the far-off land who squats on his haunches and ga {of the Arabian Nights like an into the illimitable distances with oriental legend of war, a romance so the penetrating eye of the wanderer | full of color that we are spirited away in the world's waste. place jen the magic carpet of There was plenty of bustle and ac- |scenes familiar to u tivity at the Ismailia Railway sta-|story books of tion one afternoon in the early sum-{ Before mer of 1917. There was a crowd of | spaces of red-capped staff officers of varying! degrees of dignity and importance znd in the centre stood General Edmund Allenby, who having won a great name for himself in France by sound strategy and brilliant tactics bad come to conduct a campaign "somewhere east of Suez," against the Turk. As a background for this group of officers stood throngs of vociferous natives who looked upon the campaign as already half won now that the great British general had arrived and sought the same breath to assure him of their fealty and devotion and to prophesy the most brilliant success for his expedi- tion. Officers were . talking excitedly, some seeking to learn the latest new: from New Bond Street or Pall Mall, others asking for authentic des patches from Palestine. Natives were mouthing their own personal lamentations or declaiming the battle | songs of tradition when the mob | to accom- An Oriental Romange. There is superb romance surround- step of Lawrence's carer The tales of this every 200,000 ead emory to through our childhood. went into the unknown the East his life was the he MIL eR i Sir step- i ped aside at a single word to see an undersized, barefooted, faced man in Bedouin garb approach and salute General Allenby and then in low tones without any more expres sion on his immobile face than if he were but a courier extendi n in vitation from the Shereef to whisper: "Akaba is captured." Akaba, where the great feet King Solomon rode at y three thousand tune of the most important strategical points of the Ne Kast, captured 'he news seemed almost too good be true, fare dinner anchor n vears ago, Akab Enter a Bedouin, But let the story of the great vie tory wait for a moment while the staff men eagerly disc themselves. Who is this s senger who has appeared out of the desert in such fashion? Bedouins, although of th Caucasian race, have had their fae scorched by the relentless desert until their complexions are the color of lava long before they man- hood. But this fellow is as blond as! . . i Lo a Seandinavian in whose veins flow de of hundreds of other Englishmen. Viking blood and the cool tradition of |++15 home i 1 Oxford and his family fiords and sagas. The nomadic sons! Vclong to great middle-class ins of Ishmael all wear flowing beards a tellectual type that is the backbone their ancestors did in the time Britain. During his university abraham, but this is a beardle } t Oxford he was noted for vouth whose blue eves are oblivious a recluse. Frequently he would to his surroundings as though con most unexpectedly from stantly wrapped in some inner eon niversity for long tramps across templation. nglish fields and over Scottish "Who is he," is the hushed quer; Before he finished his unis from scores of lips: ity course he begged his parents An officer steps aside from the allow him to go to the Near East group and pushing his way forward | '€cause of his interest in archaeology comes to greet the mew arrival with 'n Asia Minor. His family finally] an, ineredulows stare. \ gave him permission and: two hund- "Tom Lawrehce of Magdalene," he| "0d dollars, fully expee¢ting that hej gays, thrusting out a bronzed hand. | Would spend this sum in a flying Some day a historian with a pas- | © k's -tour through Palestine and! sion for truth and the pen of a Scott.| S¥ria and then return home, glad to] or a Dumas, will write the wonderful | Settle down and forget the Orient. Story of Lawrence of Arabia. His | But Young Lawrence scorned the or- name will be blazoned on the roman-| (inary comforts of the traveller anc tie pages of history with those of Sir|'le beaten track of the tourist. As| Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake | oon as he arrived in Syria he adopted Lord Clive, Chinese Gordon and the |Native costume and tramped bavefoot| long and glorious roll of men of! over hundreds of of tinknown | great adventure who won renown for desert, living with Bedouin reach Ors miles various cavalier | s the | the: {ed hi the Hedjaz--to such an'extent that he enemy he tried to outflank them in | was permitted to sign the king's name | the rear when they were not expect- | | to state papers Laughing At the Huns. A story told of 'those pre-war days hows that Lawrence was something | perience, he proved himself a born ore the out-| strategist as he was a born leader of engineers | men, and out-thought and out-witted along the the Turkish and German commanders »d Berlin to Bagh-|m i Lawrence and his bro-| which he fought from the day he cap- | {ol a humorist. Just be Freak of the war, German were working feverishly i road of the propos tdad railway. ing an attack, and this proved espec- ially successful at the battles of Ak-| aba and Abael Lissan. had never had an hour's previous ex- practically every engagement in i ther, who was later killed on the tured the seaport of EI-Wiih until | : western in the hi { He would ¢ were exc above the frequently railw lines mount at the ! sand top of GOL. LAURENCE 1d oeuUUin GARD, sineers ohserved the through their field-glasses they natched antic mes 8 to Berlin and Const: ng-that the british we rie points ofy the country. the young archaeologist these messages he sleeve, and having he wanted excavation. It was when the des- And when heard of laughed: up his accomplished what returned to his werk of fortunate for Britain that ar broke out there was a man in Fegypt who had kept his eves open. General Clayton, Chief of the Political jintelligence Department of '#yvpt, knew Lawrence and appreciat- worth, and he quickly nade him a political agent. Nominally he was a second lieutenant in the map! department, and he proved of great sistance to the British generals who { Spent many hours poring over maps and discussing the breaking into the Turkish Empire Frequently these skilled tacticians would outline a more or less elaborate possibilities foi ing ruins innocent pipes | rtifying all the strate- | he swept triumphantly cus, sections | of drainage pipe on small mounds of | a lls. When the!to Cairo for a conference, of the war that Lawrence was called The Arabs bad' broken out in revolt against the j Turks in the country of the Hedjaz { which lies between the forbidden city {of Mecca and the southern end of the | Dead Sea. The Arabs met with { initial success, but they soon ran out of sypplies and ammunition. It would | { have been impossible for them to go! {on with any hope of success if the | Allies--and Great Britain in particu- lar--had not gone to their rescue, The h not only sent supplies to the | Arabs, but they gave them more im-| { portant military encouragement. They {sent a number of their most brilliant | v officers to with » Arabs and to offer them encour-| sgement, and, best of all,'they sent oung Lawrence. co-operate Enter the Shereef. Now when Turkey was pulled into the maelstrom of wai with Great Britain, Fis and R pitted | against her, Shereef Hussein, the | 1 King of the Hedjaz, and other loyal | and patriotic Arabs v that Arabia's {hour hid at last struck. The nation-| alist leaders immediately took advan- | tage of their opportunity. With all} the pent-up fury and hatred of five | hundred years, they aped at the| threats of their villainous masters From everv corner of the | ¥ | | dark re-| esses of the desert came those lean, warthy picturesque sons of Ishmael | avenre and free themselves at last | 1e Shereef had four sons and they | had worked out a plan for the revolu- | tion which they kept a secret until al few weelts-hefore they were ready to! touch off the fuse. They trusted very | few, for there were spies in abund-| ance in the land in those days, and voung Turk and old Turk, Arab andl rian. Christian and Jew watched | other with suspicious eye. i ! in 1918, when Lawrence was | establishing his reputation as the first { veographer of the Near East at Brit-| {ish headquarters at Cairo. Shereef!| ein sent for him and disclosed his in for revolt. Then he sent word! » a!l theitribes of Arahia that they! {should be ready to rise at 2 moment's j rotice, and on July 13 the signal was! |riven. Simultaneous attac were | {lounched against Mecea, a city holie {than Jerusalem to more than 200. {900,000 human beings, and Medina {the second holiest Mahommedan eit ere the great prophet lies buried sein himself supervised the de- tails of the attack upon Mecca. That | {revolt was completely successful, and | {after twenty-one days' hard fighting | the Arabs were in undisputed posses. {sien of the Holy City. 1 With the fall of Mecea the Otto- mans lost the holy Mahommedan city the contro! of which enabled them to! 1 ¢ tL usurp the leaders! ip of Islam. Enter Lawrence, Leader { Then ca a pause, The Arabs| were unszhle to go on with their rev-| olution because they had used up all {their ammunition. Shereef Hussein | {appealed to the Allies, The situation | {was critical when Lawrence stepped | jon the stage of Arabia. | The British General Staff ordered | Lawrence to Arabia chiefly because { he coull speak the many languages of ne an | | experience in his life and did |W {over | instructions scheme for a campaign, and when|the country fluently and knew a great | paig 2 their flag in the distant corners of the earth. : i During the last five years of epic| events two remarkable figures have! Appeared on the Eastern horizon. The | thrilling stories and 'anecdotes of | their careers will furnish golden] themes to the writers of the future! tribes, passed. Lawrence returned to England to fnish his archaeological studies that! he might return bette: equipped fori the task that was calling him "from | the old Moulmein pagoda." The outbreak of the through whose villages he great war as the lives of Ullysses, King Arthur found him excavating Hittite ruins in and Richard the Lion Heart did for| 'te valley of the Kuphrftes. He was the poets, troubadours and chroniclers | Just twenty-six years old and had al- f others days. One is a massive '°2dy spent seven vears wandering mare-iawed six-footer--that smash- | 'hrough Turkey, Syria, Palestine, Ar. | ing Britigh cavalry leader, Tord Al:|abia, Mesopotamia and Persia, and lenby, Commander of the Twentieth | had acquired a more intimate know- Century Crusaders, who has driven ltdge of the peoples of Aleppo, Jeru- - the Turk from the Holy Land, torn salem, Damascus, Baghdad and Bas- fon the Crescent from the highest ah than any living European, agstaff and planted the Cross over| ittle did Lawrence dream when he Jerusalem after the lapse of many Was studying Hittite ruins that it was centuries. The other is an undersiz-| his destiny to build a new empire in- ed, beardless youth who without any | stead of piecing together, for a schol- theatrical headlines or fanfare of |#1's thesis, the fragments' of a dead trumpets brought the disamited no- and buried kingdom. Yét in those madic tribes of Arabia into a unified | ditys he laid the foundation of his campaign aginst their oppressors-- | great exploits, for he gained the a difficult and splendid stroke of | [riendship and the confidence of the policy which caliphs, statesmen and] Shereef of Mecea--King Hussein of BRINGING UP FATHER they had discussed it, pro and con, they would ask the young lieutenant if he had any suggestions to make. And often the young man would re- ply: "There are many good points. in your: plan, but 1 believe it is funda- mentally wyong. 1 think the cam- i should be earried out as fol- ' and by way of explanation he would point to short cuts across val- leys which he knew from his years of barefoot travelling. First-Hand Knowledge The most staid o'd army officer on the staff began to put confidence in this young licutenant, who knew so much of Arabia and so little of strat. egy and taeties. Soon his name. began to be known all through the East. and the strangest tales were circulated about him. Later on in Arabia, when Lawrence rode at the head of his Be- douins in a brilliant campaign, he ire. quently outwitted the Turks becawse ef his superior knowledge of the country. Whenever he attacked the | deal about the habits and customs of ithe people. They expected him only Lto keep posted on the progress of events in the Hedjaz, but they were wise enough to give him considerable freedom of action and he made full use of hi opportunities. | Lawrence at once got into touch | jvith the Shereef and his sons and | {took control of the reorganization of [the Pedouins on a military footing, {and the conduct of the campaign {ngainst the Turk. Although his was | ithe guiding brain in all the brilliant! | operations that took place during the| {next twelve months, yet never once | {did he assume credit for the opera-! | tions. He quickly recognized the im- portance of capturing Akaba, which liberated northern Palestine and Syria and as a result of his military suc- {cesses the British decided to co-oper-! {ate more actively with the Arabs! {than they had done before. After his meeting with Allenby at Ismailia, Hae was sent k to Arabia {with unlimited power and resources. {In less than seven months after his Although he | into Damas- } It was not long after the outbreak | ve oL . . - Photo shows the Gergen bx-Urfown Prince Friedrich W 7 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1919, ithelm with his wife, the ex- Crown Princess Cecilie, whose reconciliation and meeting took place recently. on the Islan of Wieringen, where the Crown Prince ~~, has been | return he had attained unprecedented | desert and there is no figher compli- | success and the British rewarded him by raising him to the rank of lieuten- | ant-colonel, which embarfassed more than it gratified him. The honor was well deserved but in view of the fact that he had not had a day's militar not eve ment that an Arab could pay Lawrence won the admira undying devotion of the jeause understs yr of through his proficiency in their dia- leets and his rare knowledge of their) religion, an inestimable f in set- tling disputes. But perhag » thing that endeared him most to them was his fearless courage, his ability to outdo them in everything in {they themselves excelled. Rarely he take them on an expedition w In Arabia the new colonel was failed but if by some never known to wear anything, except (things did go wrong he the native costume. Occasionally [took the same organization of Arabs when he . went to make a personal {on another expedition to show them eport to Cairo or Jerusalem he wore | that there was no such thing as fail is uniform of a British officer, but jure in his _vecabulary. In going intp cven after attaining his rank of col- [action he always eh 2d at the head | onelcy he seemed to prefer the uni-{of his troops and was in the thick form of a second lieutenant. It cf every fightt The Germans aid of him that he was the only discerned that there was a mysterious h officer who was permitted power giving inspira alk through the streets of and they set a price on without belt or cap, while it £300,000, dead cr alive able that he never douiny would 1 anyone in his life. idolized leader private he was known as p mines of King Solomon. rence," and he made no guise of At the Paris Confex g the Tact that as soon as the war was |months ago there appeared an he intended to get out-of h wearing the "agal," "kuffieh" uniform, out of the army and back | "abba," such as are worn in the Near to archaelogy. { East only by native 1 rs. In his Lawrence is no parlor conversation {belt was fastened the 'short carved alist. He never says anything * to|egold sword that marked anyone unless it is necessary to give [descendent of the prophet. or to answer a direct 'his man was Col. Lawrence question, but one of the Bedouin lead- | Lawrence of Arabia who ers says that he is the finest camel {today so peculiar an influence on th Iriver that ever trekked acress the |Arabs that they are proud to ) ion and of his the difference betw right" and "present arms." it ried responsibilities for. Lawrence which he was little eager to assume know did A Bedouin At Heart. promptly was 3ri- to Cairo s00n formal From nee, serve arts mest pr trust *| supernatural power. His modesty, OUCH! CORNS | his indifference to dress and personal . | state, all these things do not matter He remains one of the out- | in leas | standing figures of the Great War { Lawrence of Arabia | things, | i { URGES TRAINING | FOR CIVILIANS | Suggests That Soldier Civil Re-establishment Depart ment Extend Work: Ottawa, Oct. 24.--The peak in the vocational training work of the De-| partment of Soldiers' Civil Re-estab-| lishment will be reached next month. in the expectation ¢f the officials in! charge of the work. Thereafter there will be a steady decline in the nun ber being trained as, in tens and twenties, the disabled soldiers leave the schools to take their places in! industries for which they have been fitted. Many suggestions are being re-| ceived from various parts of Canada| that the organization be brought to- gether forthe puropse of giving this| training, as it includes so many en-! thusiasts in this form of teaching It is in most parts of the country hav- jing such god results, and it would be | {a pity to have it disbanded. It is| 'pointed out that disabilities result-| ing from industrial accidents, from any accident or illness, | place many citizens who Nave | { been soldiers in as great need of as-! | sistance as the soldiers | It is suggested that the vocational | { training branch should begin to take] disabled civilians for training as] soon as the number of soldiers in | training begins to dwindle. As in- {surance against unemployment, sick-| {ness and disability formed one of the] | proposals urged at the National In- 3 + {dustrial Conference, it is stated that, instantly that corn stops hurting, | i+ would be well to work vocations! then you lift it off with the fingers. | raining in connection with any such No pain at all! Try it! i 80 that as few as - { insurance plan, Why walt? Your druggist sells a possible would become permanent few fcharges to the State wehre it could Doesn't hurt a bit to lift that sare, touchy corn off with fingers Drops of magic! Apply a little Freezone on that bothersome corn tiny bottle of Freezone for a cents, sufficient to rid your feet of! he avoided. i every hard corn, soft corn, or corn! Cn mit i between the toes. and calluses, with-| Leave both ends apart.if they can- | out soreness at all, | not be made to meet honestly By GEORGE McMANUS 11 WISE <0 Talk; TG HIM FoR AWHILE AND YOULL LEARN SOME THING oT OH: THERE'S MR : AH MR. gg - HOW 1S EVERY THING AT HOME - OH! SHE, ALL RIGHT: BY THE WAY - MR, | | | meme eo A Bll var oovau | | | Trane oF Hl OE MAyPASSANT'S WORKS, - Aw | DON'T a ' living. Their which | rich | mischance Rae | stomach, {up colds | The r i 18 » gold in the | {or at | raturned to him as a} i | exerts] Lhim as a king and to endew him with ' {ing her daughter, | Lean ! obtained by Chase's Kidney-Liver Pills, two children are with them. The Fall Weather Hard on Little Ones fall weather is extreme- little ones. One day is bright and the next wel These suddeniuashan ges cramps and colic little stomach is result may be 'here is nothing to equal Own Tablets in keeping the well They sweeten the reg ite the bowels, break and make baby thrive. The Tablets are sold by medicine dealers at 25 cents a box from Medicine Co., 'anadian hard on warm and cold on cold ss baby's t the ser- little ones or by Brockville, Ont. VICTORY LOAN ACT. Erected for Campaign Ir Picton, Picto Oct. 21 Mr move to Kingston, was a Miss H the Has Been and Mrs. J Toronto R recent 'visit Harrison has Peterbore -- nermal Miss Naomi Johnston, form- erly of "Pleasant View" farm, near Picton, has now a position in the office at Bounty atchewan, In an inte ting to the trip west Knigh will Burns, home school post "Times" and experie Picton Loan Ar iére getting Victory in readiness. It is across et, near the post office QC. 'Maple Dell," was a town Monday, also 8. McCoy, and Miss Gertrude, Mr Losee, Belleville, has begun baking and des livering bread. - Horace Hughe ly returned from overseas is a t him. Mr. Davison, "Bay View Farm," has been on the sick list. now visitor on Doings At Wagarville. Wagarville, Oct. 20.--Mr. and Mrs. ictor Kirkham, have returned to their farm after spending the sume 1t Napanee. Mrs, G. Howes has the past week with her brother. Black, who, is very ill. Meren- 3s Cronk, is very busy cleaning his feldspar mine and preparing it for vv 0s | sale. The raffle and dance at Ashley Wagar's, was largely attended. All | report a fine time. Mrs. William Mc- { Camber has returned home after vie siting her mother at Petworth. Mr, and Mrs, Hiram Wagar are at Wile liam Wagar's Mrs. D. Sly's is visit- Mrs, W. Cornwell's. Mrs. Earl Storms and daughter Letta are at John Vans. at Tichborne. Many people from here attended the reception at John Rayeraft's at Me- for his daughter Sarah, who was recently married to Willis Assel- tine, of Long Lake. Pains About the Heart ANY derangement of the heart's action is alarming. Frequently pains about' the heart are caused by the forma- tion of gas arising from indi. gestion. / Relief from this tondition Is the use of Dr. Chronic indigestion results from sluggish liver action, con- stipation of the bowels and inactive kidneys. Because Dr. Chase's Kidoney-Liver Pills arouse these organs {o aclivity | they thoroughly cure indigestion and overcome the many annoying symp toms. Ro Kidney Liven Pills aR

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