Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1915-07-31
CLEANING UP PATSY
tine, PREPARING ],
TO CONQUER EeY

ASSOCIATED Press Iees1denes4
Berlin. July 15.-Palesu Il underr1
a great transformatiqu1 the matts
railway communicate irnprorsd M
ways, and better ttil,ary condiss
This is evident from a letter I'd
Frankfurter ZeituIg from its i,
spondent in Jaffa; the seaport Of i
lem. who has been interviewing Dti
Pasha. the military governor Of 81
This work has all been undertaken
Turkey went to war and is LARGER
preparation for extensive military o.
atoms against Egypt. Already. acrssyy
ing to Djemal Pasha. the Suez canal
been mined and one ship sunk.
Immediately after my arrival IN
ria," said Djemal, who is one Of the Id
ers of the dominant Young Turk" pa
my first work was to take measus
improve and extend thn roads In
Battalions of .workmen were @ggs
for the purpose of building inpor{
new roads and putting into repair !
ones that had become useless. Ford
you could not go further south nd
riage than Hebron, but already$fd
ride in my automobile through Ha
and Beersheba out into tie desert
Here the correspondent remarks 4
he spent whole day last year II
horseback from Hebron to Beershd
where the distance can now be covs
by automobile in one hour.
within a short time," Djemal went,
I'VE have built over 100 kilom
railway and have connected "a
with the Hejaz Railway (the
runs south from Aleppo and
over the plateau to the east Old
Gan. and on southwark to Mccall
doubtless know how anxious
lish were to prevent the building q
connection. They refused to gi}l
French, thair own allies. the r30h6
ry this road through Ramleh n
they We're determined Under any q
circumstances to prevent LAND
ton from Syria and AnatolsRA6
Now We want to carry these
further, and hope that ~
able to transport our troopA
the Suez Canal. After ours trcc
Egypt, an event which / confd
pect. these railways will be
with the Egyptian system Of
The correspondent thinks thai Mo
way building will provessof speeAsucl
importance for the development Of r
tine.
: Djemal went on 70 shoW what
Turkish troops have already act
plished in preparing for the conques
Egypt. I'VE have pushed forwafds
frontier. which formerly ran inss ~
line from Tel-el-Raffa on the MON
mean to Akaba ION the gulf ;of that
up close to the Suez canal. ah&
trying by all possible means
this conquered territory. We hss2
numerous wells there. whicAAwil
our troops with water, and we ha9
en- all steps necessary to ensale
troops to stay there aud xieo Il.
ward. This means also that we
opened up this wilderness for ssto.,
by a fixed population. AS the e.
in disregard Of all existing treaties
guarantee the neutrality Of the
Canal, have built Notifications to
east of it and have thus drawn thes
into the sphere of hostilities, we weg
longer able to regard the canal as ne'
territory We therefore put mines
various places in IT, and these have
ready caused the sinking of one sni
Sanitary conditions, said Djemals
satisfactory, in spite Of the mobiln'
of troops. The fight against epic
diseases had been facilitated, he
by the International Health once
.tablished at Jerusalem some Year,
by Nathan Straus of New York al
number of German philanthropists.