The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1916-03-01
RIFLE RAN.GE IS
SET Up on Mt.
CALVARY, IS SAID
Holy Places, Whose Care
Brought on Crimean War,
Gradually Changing Own
ership Because of Conflict.

Lundon.-Thc care of the Holy
Places brought on the Crim,an war.
with the siege of S~cbastopol. the bat
tie of lnkcrman and the charge uf
the Light Brigade. just as the care OF
these Holy Places. so called, had be-
fore CONFUSED all Europe viii the
three Crusades. and vet the care Of
these same Holy placcs-the Holy
Scpuioher at Jerusalem, the place of
the Nativity at Bethlehem, and the
countless other landmarks of the
birth of Christianity-are changing
hands as AN incident OF the present
war. and almost impcrccptihly because
of The noise Of the conflict in = many
other thoatcrs of warfare.
one report is that "a military shoot
.ng range has been set up un Mou;.t
calvary. the site above all others ven
Grated by the Christian world az the
place of the CrucliiNion. But inquiry
establishes thai II this rifle range cN-
lists II Is at the Gordon calvary, 80
called after Genera Gurdon Cf khar-
tuna face, who designated II as what
he believed to be the real site, though
II - not the calvary commonly ac-
ccptcd by tradition. generated and
guarded 10y Pilgrims and the chur~h.
and commended for Dos European ma
tions. This Gordon ,llNary w In the
outskirts of Jerusalem some distance
from The traditional site of the Holy
~Sepulcher.
From u military -t'udpoint all at
tontion to the ~Gcrmtu-Tui Kish mill
ulry operations in syria has been ABB
sorbcd III the slow approach south
ward toward Egypt and ,he sucz "a
nal. that rich prize supposed To he the
link between Europe md tue orient.
But While this main military object
has been going on. 10 has involved a.
the Same time the steady occupation
| Of the entire Holy Land as psrt of the
field 81 preparation ana advance. with
military forces IN control ~ Jcrusa-
lem, Bethlehem, Nazarcih ana
throughout the region OF the Holy
| Placc and the French, ltali,n, Eng
, lisb and other custodlans 90 these
sites. expelled or informed seven OF
the Italian custodian q Rethleheu-
tho site Of the Natlyity -ha'e recently
been intcrned by the military author
titles and their place b. 20 he taken by
Austrian c~ustodians.
The sweep of his German Turkish
movement Throughout h Holy Land
is shown by the fact that tho military
railway. On which the approach "a
Egypt depends. Is believed to be con
structcd to the desert outskiris OF
Beershega. This IS The snine town
referred 10 in holy writ, aud which
created the Biblical phrase from Dan
Ia Boershcba,' as IL ~ tbs uttermost
limit of the Holy Land where I,
mergos INTO the desert leading ~
Egypt, II in this Biblical point. Beer
sheba. which is expected 10 be the
military base. tn when the railway
viii bring down supplies nom IN.
north for the adNanco toross the des-
ert. should the attack On Egypt ever
be carried out as II has been loudly
heralded. So that Bcershcha today II
performing the same junction as III
Biblical ~days--the la-t outpost beior.
entering the desert, 80 miles across
| with an ocean OF who sand ana al
most no water holes none adequate
for the watering OF a great army The
only cavalry here mp-t he such ~ Is