The Washington herald., 1917-12-18
Turks Slaughter Jews
AS British Win Palestine
Even German Soldiers Enter Protest Against
Cruelties Practiced Upon Unresisting
Civilians in Holy City.

struck at GAIA. His proclamation,
announcing England's intention to
Give Palestine back to the Jews,
reached the colonists. who could NOT
control their joy.
The German Falkenhayn smiled
gocd-naturedly. But the saturnine
features Of Djemal Pasha flushed
with rage, and he prepared to punish
the Jubilant Jews.
Under the pretext Of military
necessity" which later he explained
to mean a desire to save them from
bombardment by sea and air. DjemaI
Pasha, last March g. ordered the
Jews to evacuate Jana by the first
of the following month. The order
came during the midst of the Pass
over holidays. when Jews celebrate
their liberation by Moses from the
cruel bondage Of Pharaoh. and this
feast of rejoicing was transformed
into q carnival OF woe. Djemal
Pasha openly threatened to make Of
Palestine another Armenia
On the heels Of the fleeing Jews
came Turkish soldiers and Bedouin
marauders. who pillaged the deserted
houses and carried Oh all the aban-
doned household treasures.
Pursue Refugees.
Highwaymsn pursued the wealth.
Ter refugees. and attacking them In
the sand hills, left them sick, stripped
and naked, to die. These outrsges
were committed, as one correspondent
put 1t, under the paternal eye OF
| authority"
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was invaded by marauders, but they
were met by several score young
men. who, risking death for dis
obedience of Djemal Pasha's decree.
again jeopardiZed their lives to save
this concrete Jewish accomplishment.
They were reinforced by other young
Jews, "Shomerim," who rushed
down from the villages, and they set
up a good fight until they were over
whelmed by Turkish soldiery and
thrown into prison.
The roads to the Jewish colonies
swarmed with thousands of men,
women and children, harsssed by
died in their tracks.
The colonists abandoned theiT
crops, which they were then har-
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wagons to places Of safety. and the
Shomerin made ready for battle.
The American counsul at Jerusa-
lem, DR.. Otis G. Glazebrook, Joined
with other neutral diplimats in q
formal protest to Djemal, who made
a show of yielding. But It soon de-
veloped that he was planning ever
greater outrages, including the
Eevacuation of Jerusalem and the
destruction of the colonies.
Indeed, he had already begun tc
destroy the new forests which had
been planted by the Jewish farm
ers, and the Harzl forest. planted
by Zionists from all over the world
in memory of the great leader Of the
movement, was stripped Of over
5000 olive trees.
Germans Make Protest.
But before he could carry out hi:
more ambitious program OF outrage
a courier who risked his life a hun
dred times, and whose name must no
yet be disclosed, made his way ou
of Palestine and cabled the news t.
the Provisional Zionist Committee II
New York
Remembering Armenia, the civilized
world raised a tremendous outcry
against the impending massacres II
the Holy Land.
The tidings reached the German
Zionists, who were fighting unde
Wilhelm's flag in the trenches il
Belgium and Flanders. and from ou
the trenches came a protest so stronl
that 1t reached the ears Of Fal
kenhayn, who had already remon
strated with Djemal.
When word came to Falkenshayl
Of the protest by the German Zion