Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-08-27
JERUsALEM N THE WAR.

lffgIn the New lOfk IlmeS.l
The American missionaries who
have just returned from Turkey, Asia
Minor and Syria say that Jerusalem
has been strongly fortified by the
Turks under German direction, and
that the Turkish forces, with ample
modern guns and munitions. and led
by German officers Of high rank. are
prepared to hold il against the Brit
ish Somehow, this news brings TO
The mind not so much the famous
siegea of Jerusalem as the Kaiser's
visit 10 that city II it must be sub
ject Of regret tO-the amateurs OF his
torieal justice and poetry that he
wasn't personally conducted to the
Holy Land by Mr., Cook. as he told
that world-wanderer on Mount Vesu-
vius in 1894 he hoped TO be, at least
nothing else was wanting to his hap
piness. His religious manifestations.
the stock Of religion, If we may say
so without onense, that he brought
to Palestine, as sublimated drum
merp for Pan-Germanism. are beau
tiful TO recall
On oct. 81. 1898. the anniversary oil
Luther's thesis-nailing at Witen-
berg. he appeared in the Protestant
Church of Jerusalem. whose wood
work came from that city OF Horatio
and Luther troop of Lutheran
theologians and clergymen surround
ed him. That forenoon he was the
imperial protector and head Of Ger
man Lutheranism. In the afternoon
he stood on Mount Zion, his sword
out of its scabbard. saluting the i'm
perial standard raised with Persian
pomp, a force of his soldiers and sail
ors adding the characteristic touch
the Latin Patriarch looking on, prob
ably little puzzled That afternoon
the Kaiser made over TO the German
Catholic settlement al Jerusalem the
Roman Catholic church erected on the
piece Of land given by his father to
the sultan. The Kaiser in Jerusalem,
the Kaiser on Mount Zion. the Kaiser
the protector of German Lutherans
ana Roman Catholics, of all Chris
tlans in the East II must have been
n memorable day for him.
Everybody knows that, eight days
afterward. at Damascus. the protec
tor of the Christians, fresh from
Christian affairs and Mount Zion, as
sured the noble Abdul Hamid and
the three millions OF Mohammedans
who venerate him as their, Caliph
that "the German Emperor will al
ways remain their friend Through
we don't know how many regions Of
islam the German propagandists,
fun Of the fatuous Pan-lslamism and
Holy War ohsession. have preached
the Kaiser. have told of his CONVEX
sion to Islam As a pendant 70 the
picture OF the Kaiser as true be-
lever. German propagandists in Spain
have proclaimed his conversion to the
Roman Catholic Church. SO varied
are the religious adventures of this
$50 various" potentate.
The Armenian and the Syrian
Christians. such of them as have es-
capped the massacres of his Moham-
medan friends, know how well he
protected the Christians. Now the pro-
tector of the Christians has had
Jerusalem fortified for the benefit Of
the Turks. The sincerity Of the Kali
ser's religious emotions is not brought
in doubt Naumann of Central Eu-
rope, himself former clergyman,
explained years ago the religious the
DRY of the Germans:
As Christians Wa welcome the ex-
pansiou Of the faith, bat our politics
has ne occasion to be concerned with
Christian missions We must
seek for the greatest and the most
important moral work William II
has made his choice, He is the friend
OF the sultan because hisTaith is in a
greater Germany"