The Holbrook news., 1912-03-22

that two-thirds of the men in his com mand were likewise members of the sect, and several of them actually priests or mullahs.
 These latter, who are the secret em- issaries of the organization, are trained at Joffo, and are dispatched in thousands throughout Africa, coming and going almost invisibly. For a long time past, however, the British authorities have kept them under a certain degree of surveillance, com polling them to carry a passbook, which they must get signed by the officer commanding if they wish to stay in any British station. It is an interesting proof of their ubiquity that one of these some little while back, when his book was examined by an officer on the west coast, was found to have been in Khartoum during the siege. his pass bearing the signature of the iIl-fated British leader.
 Further information suggests that the actually affiliated members of Senussi-ism number over ten millions, and that would be but a fraction of the total force available if Senussi proclaimed the Jehad. Secure in the heart of the vast Saharan wilderness he has, 1t is known, large stores and munitions of war. He possesses an armory, and, there is good reason to believe, an extensive factory for the manufacture of arms and ammunition, while much more is continually being transported thither from at least three different parts of Africa. Thither al- so come offerings to the prophet of costly gifts. together with frequent despatches from his many secret serv- ice agents not only in Africa, but Europe as well.
 The extraordinary persistence of Senussi-ism is carrying 1t far and wide through Central Africa southward to- wards the Zambesi and the swarming millions of Pagan races who are causing us no little anxiety in South Africa today. It Is drawing into a vast community of native feeling all the fierce races who find in its mili- tant creed a far greater attraction than in Christianity, with it's higher moral standards, especially as it holds out the promise of coming day when a deadly blow will be struck. at the hated white aggressor.
 The missionaries of Islam are beat ing those of Christianity in Africa, and, wherever they go, there the Senussi brotherhood establishes itself for a beacon, as 1t were, on the hill tops, waiting for the master-hand to apply the torch. In that day the Euro pean will find himself confronted by overwhelming masses. and by an or ganization, efficiency and armament | superior to any yet encountered in Al | rica. Moreover, thousands have been, and are still being. trained in white | methods of warfare by British, French | and German instructors of colonial | regiments.
 Senussi is an astute statesman, and | will only move when everything is | favorable for an appeal to a greater unity of Mohammedan feeling and ac- tion than has been witnessed for many ever attempt to push their outposts southward, they will experience the weight of the most powerful Islamic organization in Africa. Wheth- CT Senussi possesses light artillery of any sort has never been ascertain able, says an officer in the Soudan, but the extraordinary mobility of his their powers of endurance, their intimate knowledge of the vast bowling wastes of desert, into which they can always retreat and defy pur- suit, are advantages with which the Italian forces could never hope to cope successfully.
 Certain it is that amidst the fast nesses of the Sahara keen eye is the growing dissensions of the great powers in Europe and else where Senussites themselves are forced to own that the time for the expulsion of the white race from Af- rica is not yet But they tell one with equal frankness that it may be- If God wiIls-one day when the Chris hans are cutting one another's -hroats. It is in this that they look for their grand opportunity, and it is possible even now that the outbreak of a great European struggle might { be the signal for a mighty conf1agra- don in Africa.