The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-02-13
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BRITISH PRISONERS ON HEBREW EXILES TRACK
Equal Miscry, Alter Twenty-Five Hundred ears b4'"'S
Traverse Old Testament Route
" WILLIAM T. ELLIS, LII.
Author, Traveller, PubllciSt.

Americans in KOnia 20 minister al III
To the needs OF their EnSlISh-SpeakihS
fellows. After all local efforts talieu'
the Americans sought me lnteTceSSlon
of their Ambassador at COnStanlnopIc
but apparuntly in vain. imagine me
state o. .Tnlnd OF these three AnleEl-
can missionaries Al being forced 10
see the EnGuSh boys suffer ana d!F,
without even an 0p0rl unity 20 Speah
10 them the comforts OF the OhTlSt!aI
religion. =
In The villages about Konia are in.
termed some i've hundred clvlliahs OF
Allied Nations. gathered up from re,
gions ID, far separated as Bagdad
ana ,'Onstantinople. Tho turkish uoN-
crnmcn, does nothing for the mallI'.
,cnanCr OF .heSc men, but funds are
transmitted 10 the Civilian prisoners
through ;:Ie American Embassy. ana
,!lStrtauIrd by an American woman
missionary.
After he war. the survivors Of THIS
BRUSH army will have perhaps lIe
most romantic tale Of all 20 lel! 10
The world. Their misfortunes DefeII
Them down in The Old home Of Abra-
ham. within what We're later the
realms OF NebucEadreZzar and CEruS'
Daniel knew the neighboThond vel;
So did the Wise Men who followed
a star TO Bethlehem. Haroun e: R&s-
child, and The other figures or me
Arabian Knights" enacted their Aa'
ventures there.
This was the region where dwell
the cyied children Of Israel. SIX nun"
dred years before Christ. Inc great
vsalms ofLhe exile. and the passionate
irtcranccs Of the Hebrew prophets,
ara recalled by this experience, 22.l
l,tf np N
ian prisoners who made the same sort
nf tourney over much OF the same
road as the Jews who had been
taken captive first by SaTSon ana lat
er by Nebuchadrezzar.
One essential difference there IL oe-
tween the two plgrimages OF cap
lives. The Tsraelites we're driven 10
the East and the South, their deStln-
alton being lower MeSopotalhla. Inc
British soldiers captivity began where
that of the Children of Israel en"eh,
: and they travelled To the Norlh anu
the West. Both journied afoot over me
desert along the Tisris River. l'osn
AID The bitterness Of the woe or the
Wilderness. Goth felt the lash OF the
cruel oriental captors and taSk-mak-
ers. Beth hungered with a passion pro-
founder than any physical craving
for their homelands; and literature
has few passages moro MOVING. than
that Of the Hebrew captives' plalnt:-
Il cannot sing the Lords songs IN
Il strange land"
! After the Euphrates River was eros
sed. in Northern Mesopotamla, Inc
beaten path Of the Old TESTAMENT eX-
lies was LETT by the REttish soldiers
They were taken westward 10 AieEpu,
and thence around the head o: me
Mrditcrranean. passing through Ad9na
and Tarsus. and then through the MS IS,
toric Cicilian Gates. oyer the main I;d
highway to Kunia and Constantinopse:
Al Roma a large detachment o. men,
only from the food shortage WHICH
afflicts the entire land, and from the
plague and lack of medicine which
likewise have decimated the country,
but also. and especially. from the ;ate
of the European who finds himself
prisoner of the cruel and vinGc!tive
Turkish ogicialdom.