The Sentinel=record., 1917-12-11

New York Dec l0.-Jerusalem ia in the hands of the British alter hay ing been for virtually twelve hundred years in the control of the Moslems
 The Holy City Of the Christian re- lision eapitulated to General AIenby's forces consisting of British. French and Italian troops, after il had been entirely surrounded and with its fall seemingly swept away the dream of the Germans and the Turks of driy- ins southward. througA Palestine capturing the Suez anal and invading Egypt
 Since the recent taking of the town of Jatfa on the Mediterranean sea and the gradual closing in on Jeru- salem by the allied forces. the fall of the ancient city daily had been anticipated It was not the lack of strength that prevented its capture but rather the desire of General AL lendy to carry out his plan of en- veloping the city and forcing its cap itulation, as frontal atta k would have endangered the numerous sacred Flaces inside the city and in its en- virons.
 The counter revolt against the Bol- sheviki regime in southeastern Rus sia appears to gain great momentum Already the movement is spreading fan-like from the chosen bases north ward northeastward and northwest ward wlile preparations are hasten ing to extend it southWard to the Caucasus Meanwhile the BolsheVH government continues to issue mani festos calling on its followers to re- aist the attempt that is being made to overthrow it.
 From his base in the river Don re- zion, General kaledines, hetman of the Don Cossacks, is moving toward the borders of the Ukraine, which al- ready declared its independence of and hostility to the Bolshevih ele- ments, and at the same time is form ing a menace to Moscow. where the Bolsheviki are in control In the cen ter others of the revolutionaries are making their way northward while from 0rcnhurg, near the Siberian coast. General Dutoff is proceeding in a northeasterly direction with the ob- Ject of capturing Chelabinsk the union point of the Trans Siberian railway in order to prevent food and other supplies reaching European Russia, especially Peuograd, from Si- beria and Pacific ports.
 Although it has definitely aligned it. self with the revolutionary movement the new republic of Siberia has is sued an order that promises mate rially to aid the Kaledines forces This order forbids the shipmetn Of food supplies into European Russia, the ground being taken they may reach the Germans
 From the Baltic sea to the mouth of the Danube the armistice between the Russians and Rumaniaus and the Austro- Germans is still in operation. An unofficial dispatch from Jassy, the Rumanian capital, says the armistice is to continue for tree months and that the Teutons have agreed to all the proposals made by the Rumanians except that providing that troops shall not be removed to other fronts. This proposal is still under discussion.
 That the Austro Germans are re- lieving men from duty on the eastern front and throwing them into the lines in France and Italy daily becomes more apparent by reason of the ai- most continuous augmentation of their fc~roe in these reqions The belief prevails that with the fighting ended on the Russian front, for the moment at least. the enemy is preparing for a great offensive on the western front The Italians have definitely stopped the attempted drive of the Austro- Germans toward the Italian plains and tho Germans have failed thus far to follow up their success of last week against General Byngs army on the Cambrai sector in France Both Tn Italy and where they have faced the British the Teutons have paid dearly for any gains they made and appar- ently now they are endeayoring to