The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-11-05

coming the prophet had foretuld and
bore out this statement wonderfully As in the proph
ccy the youth s parents were named Mahomet and
Iatima he the direct descendant of the Prophet
Mahomet; he had lived for several years in solitude
hermit; he had the ''biah and the open
face of the prophecy he had the Nshaped opening
his teeth and the purple mole between his shoulders
sguifying favored by Allah. Every convinced
that he was tho true Mabdi,
LIS FIRST act was to found by firman of the Sui
l. tau Of Turkey zawia at Djarabub, which was
to become the headquarters Of the order Up to this
time the transactions of tho sect had been carried
in tho plain sight of the world, Of course there
few white who made their way into the Lihyan
desert in those days, but those few not prevented
by the Senussi from visiting the city where their
astery was situated. That is why have such GER
tain non!cdge of the way in which this sect
founded. But when Mahomct and his chief
turned into the 2awia at Djarabub they forbade any
but accrudited Scnussi to enter their vicinity.
Here in the desert fastnesses of the province of
Cyrenaca where a white would hesitate to 60
even under tho most favorable conditions Mabomet
built up his secret order to what it is today All
know of the city is tho report brought back by
Arab spy who had the courage to push until he
reached it and the good fortune to return alive. He
related that it built in the shape of horseshoe,
rather. st1rrup and completely walled in
all sides There were but two gates at least he
but two tho west and the east. IT
like great university where the tenets of tho order
taught The monastery stood in The ceuter and
surrounded by the dormories Of the students and
young priests.
Ho told also that there were enormous factories
aud arscnas where and ammunition were manu-
featured. There huge warehouses where all these
munitions of stored and held iu readiness
for the great holy which to como when the
time was ripe The spy remained only short time
and cautiously withdrew for fear that his mpos
ture might be discovered This all we know
cernug the great fortified capital of the Senuss but
it is sufficient to alarm. Mohammedun
madman when he is fighting for his religion lie gives
quarter aud asks And tho Seuussi
widespread that edct from the high priest would
place between 10000 and 100000 fanatics in the
field equipped with tue guns which they have been
manufacturing at Darabub for the last fifty years
TN SPITE of the mystery which surrounds the order
ii is certain that il has already made enormous
growth aud is continuing to grow every day. An act
propaganda is being carried on IN Turkey Abys-
snia Somaliland, Egypt and the Soudan, Their ono
idea the thing which they concentrate AL their
efforts is TO inspire hostility against the Christian
religion and havo everything in readiness for the
great Jehad which is TO come. When IT will come
tell. and this is the greatest danger signal
about the whole movement. The most sinister and sig
ucaut symptom Of the crusade is the message carried
by the senussi agents; ''Wait, for the timo is
vet ripe. Rest now but when the hour arrives rise,
slay and spare not. -
The Seunssi enlist in the regiments Of Mobsnmcdan
troops the British army IN oroer mat they may
carry their propaganda among the soldiers. They
continually proscyting to their sect and each year
there are in the Egyptian army Great
Britain than there the year before It is i'm
possible for white TO recognize Scnuss but
they have certain signs whereby they make them
selves known to each other Consequently it is diff
cult to estimate tho number of members Of the sect
there who pretending to fight under the Brit
ish flag. But commission which England ordered
to investigate the matter few years stated that
woTd
eral Jehad 70 per cent of Mohammedan troops would
be in arms against Great Britain.
Strange tales told of the Senussi power. They
known to exist all through the cast, but 1t Is I'M
possible Law hands them, All or their movements
arc secret Whenever they strike they strike in the
dark. When Abdul Mediid was Sultan of Turkey be
broke with the Senussi and tried to carry his
crnmeut along different lines than those set down by
the order he believed that his surest method of pro-
ccdure was 10 maintain close relations with the
Europeau powers This stood him in good stead
far as the welfare of his country concerned for
it was the Christian nations that saved him from