Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-11-03

two hundred millions of Moslems into
IA fierce. implacable effort to drive not
only the Italians but Christians of
whatever nationality out of their do 1,
mains.
A Holy War will be war to the
knife and the knife to the hilt 1t will
cement the wild tribes that roam the
deserts into body of fighting men
such as the British in all their exper-
fences with the Mad Mullah never
had to face.
The guiding force In this Holy War
will be that powerful and rapidly
growing religious sect known as the
which practically nothing is known
here. But writer's familiar with Az
RIGA are pointing out that while Italy
with little trouble may take the coast
towns of Tripoli, she can hold them
only at desperate cost and that a con-
quest of the hinterland Is almost
hopeless.
r.. Alexander Powell, formerly of
the American consular service in the
Ottoman dominions. as Greater Tur-
key is called, in a recent article on
the "Moslem Menace" has the follow
| ing to say of this remarkable sect:
ITO American ears the word Sen
ussiyeh' doubtless conveys but little
| meaning. but to the French admins
trateurs in Tunisia and Algeria and to
the officials of the Military Intelligence
Department in Egypt and the Sudan
II Is word of ominous import.
Though the Brotherhood of the Sen
ussiyeh Is, without much doubt. the
most powerful organization of its kind
In the world, 80 complete Is the veil
Of secrecy behind which It works that
comparatively little Is definitely
known as to It's designs. qualifications,
and resources. Briefly, II Is secret
Moslem society, organized about a
century ago by an Algerian dervish,
Mohammed ben Ali ben Els Senussi,
from whom II takes its Nance its OBJ
ject Is the restoration of the Moham-
median religion to its original purity.
austerity. and political power, the first
step toward which Is the expulsion
of the Christian from Moslem lands;
its initiated members, scattered
| throughout the Mohammedan world.
have been variously estimated at from
five to fifteen millions; the present
Grand Master of the order, Senussi
Ahmed Sheriff. the third of the sue
cession, Is admittedly man of excep-
tional intelligence, resource and sag
acity; his monastic court Is at Jof. In
the oasis of Kufra. five hundred miles
as the camel goes south of Benghazi,
Stripped of the glamour and ex-
aggeration with which sensational
writer's and superficial travellers have
invested the subject. II Is apparent
that the Senussi controls u very wide
spread and powerful organization-an
organization probably unique In the
Moslem world. AZ a fighting element
his followers are undoubtedly far SUI
perior to the wild and wretchedly
armed tribesmen who charged the
British squares so valorously at Abu
Klea and Omdurman and who wiped
out an Italian army in the Abyssinian
hills. Their remarkable mobility,
their wonderful powers OF endurance,
their large supplies of the swift and
hardy racing known as begin,
and their marvellous knowledge of this
great. inhospitable region, coupled
with the fact that they can always
retreat to their bases In the desert
where civilized troops cannot follow
them. are all advantages OF which
they are thoroughly aware. That the
Senussi IL far too shrewd and intelli'
gent a man to attempt at this time
any wholesale expulsion of the Chris
tians from North Africa I am very