The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1916-05-19
HORSES OF ENVER BEY WERE
SHOD WITH PRECIOUS
METAL.
DESERT TRIP DESCRIBED
Lady Writer i'm French Paper Tells
How She Met Turkish Military
Leader.

peared one night at one of the French
military posts in Southern Tunis and
as mysteriously fitted away.
Around u.s." she says, there were
only sand dunes, some wandering ma
tive camps and some scouts with blue
capes watching the trail leading to
Tripoli, and in the courtyard of the
station two mitrailleuses and two
score soldiers sent from Gabes.
"The day had been a picturesque
and exciting one. A Jew had been
arrested for selling field glasses and
Italian maps; a Greek had been
charged with selling contraband
goods, and a Bedouin sheik had been
sentenced for stirring up his tribe to
cross our frontier and rally under the
flag of Enver Bey.
1.-THE evening was gloomy and OPP
pressive. The simeon was blowing
so fiercely that it stretched burning
yellow cloud between earth and sky.
Every time the cook opened the door
a yellowish whirlwind entered with
him. There was sand in our plates
and sand at the bottom of our glasses
Even the amiable gayety of the Off
GERS was beginning to calm down
when blue scout came in, important
and discreet, and whispered some
thing to the lieutenant commander.
He went out. We heard few words
and then the officer came back, bring
ing with him a guest covered with
sand and wrapped up like woman.
But when he had removed his white
burnoos and his wells, we understood
from his uniform and his strapped
boots that he was a Turkish officer.
HE was small, thin, but well built
and appeared to us very young, with
a short moustache whitened by the
sand and his garments glowing as if
they were powdered with gold from
the dust of the simeon. He excused
himself for his appearance, giving his
name TO us. He spoke French well.
I noticed the fineness of his hands,
and from the energetic way they
broke bread or placed his glass on
the table felt that, in spite of his
age and the absence of gold lace, he
was a leader.
Chatted of the BOulevards.
"He lightly chatted about Paris,
the boulevards and the theaters with
the air of being a man of the world
in this out of the way hole in the de-
sert. But, one of the lieutenants hav-
ing spoken to me in Arabic, he be-
came suddenly grave.
you know Arabic, Madame?"
"A little; l was born in Palestine,
in Jerusalem"
"At Jerusalem" he cried. THAT is
also holy city for US, the city of the
Friend of God, that is to say, of Abb
raham You have seen the tomb of
And our mosque of
Omar! Then, Madame. you are al
most a "hadjia" and have the right
to wear the green turban.
"And when told him had travel
ed as a child in Arabia with my faith
er and lived among the Bedoum
tribes, and that as poor young girl
in Paris / always had dreamed of re-
turning TO Arabia as a prophecies,
living on the charity of Allah, he
grew excited and cried:
"Ah, Arabia, cradle on Islam! And
the Arabian race, enduring as the
rock! 1t you knew what could be
done with it. If it were all together, !
no nation in Europe, however, power
full in Warlike material, could con-
Quer bit of the land where the grain /
has sprouted under the benediction
Of Islam!"
"Astonished at this outbreak of
the officers looked at each
other. He noticed it and became ST.
itAAls bAb SUM DSSdn " npSdh aSosh ,
of his love for France and his ad-
of the French.
IAN alliance with France would be
the salvation of Turkey" he de-
and. raising his glass, drank
70 the French army.
"The lieutenant commander want
ed MIN 10 pass tie night"
no, no, imposs bie!" he sai.. Il
must go, my caravan ought to be re-
freshed by this time" and he wrap
ped himself in his mantle.
1.-The simeon having relaxed, we
him to the outskirts of
our post, where horsemen, yelled like
him, awaited him. He thanked the
officers warmly for their hospitality,
babe goodby to us, leaped on his
horse and galloped OFF on the trail
20 Tripoh to rejoin his convoy of