The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-11
JERUSALEM AND
PALESTINE WILL
GO BACK TO JEW
FALL OF HOLY CITY Is ONE OF
MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENTS
IN WORLD WAR.
FULFILLING PROPHECY
Solemn Thanksgiving and Te Deum
Held Today In st. Paul's Cathedral in
LOndssp-liead Of Zionist Movement In
Chicago Predicts Return Of Hebrews.

London. Dec ll.-No attempt will be
made to define the future position OF
Jerusalem until a general peace comes.
the Times says. In the meantime. the
city will be treated as in British mill
tary occupation and will be under mar
thai law
General Allenby will appoint mill
tary governor.
While the British flag will fly over
the city, the French and Italian flags
will be placed over their national prop
erty, such as converts and schools.
A solemn thanksgiving and TIE Deum
Church Of England win be held in st.
Pauls cathedral today in celebration Of
the surrender.
The Scriptures clearly point out that
the Deity gave TO Abraham and his race
after him the land of Palestine "as an
inheritance forever" The Jews, after
their enforced dispersion over the world
as a result of the destruction of Jeru-
salem and conquest of the Holy Land
by the Roman armies in A. ID. 20, have
never lost faith i'm the Divine promise
to them, and have. all through the 1000
years since that time, believed that they
again would reoccupy their land as a
nation. AS a people they have pre-
served their racial integrity. a nation
in the midst of nations, and a people
without a parliament.
The Zionist movement over the world
for number OF years has had for its
mission the return of the Jewish race
to Palestine. A few well-to-do Jews in
America and some in Europe have op-
posed. but the great heart of the He
brew race has longed to once more beat
in unity with the God of their fathers
in no Ia md ho eritr 20 TO
a possession forever" There be many
students of the Bible now among the
Gentle or Christian races who see the
fulfillment of prophecy in the war, and
especially in the fall Of Jerusalem.
Chicago Dec. IL Max Schulman,
head of the Zionist movement in Chi
cago said here that capture of Jeru-
salem meant that within ten years the
Jews will again occupy Palestine as a
nation
Palestine" said he. will support a
population of 100000 persons
1T will probably be governed much
the same as was Switzerland, with the
protection of the great allied nations.
A liberty loan of s100,0000 900 will be re-
quired and our optimists predict that
ii will be subscribed in three days,
whenever the call comes"
London, Dec. 11.-Chancellor Bonar
Law reports British, French and Mo-
representatives were on the
way to Jerusalem to safeguard holy
places.
General Allenby reported that on Sat
urday night, he attacked the position
south and west of Jerusalem, the chan
cellor said. Welsh and home country
troops, advancing from the direction of
Bethlehem drove back the enemy and,
passing Jerusalem on the east. establish
ed themselves on the Jerusalem-Jericho
road.
At the same time London infantry and
yeomanry attacked the
strong enemy positions northwest of
Jerusalem and placed them astride the
Jerusalem-Shechem road.
Ths Holy City, being thus Isolated.
to General Allenby The
chancellor said General Allenby expect
ed TO enter Jerusalem officially today,
by the commanders Of the
French and Italian contingents.
London. Dec. 1.-THE wrestling of
Jerusalem from the Turks and Huns
by a Christian power opens up the
broadest historical background for the
war that has yet been revealed. Be-
ulllu IL we see tIlt TOfldntlC adventures
Of the Crusaders, centuries before the
sultan found a worthy ally in the
kaiser.
The British army has opened the
gates of the ancient capital to its own
people. 1t is now only a matter of
time and organization for its re-estab-
lishment as the administration center
Of a Jewish national government When
the peoples and governments of Bel
gium and Serbia and Rumania return
from their enforced exile, the Jewish
republic also will call its people home
from exile of many centuries.
As to the constitution of that repub-
lie. il is too early to ask who will be
the first president. but enough is known
of the policy that is already shaping it
TO say that 1t will be a model of demo-
cratic craftsmanship. Its electoral sys-
tenn will almost surely be based on
proportional representation and its eco
nomic system on the single tax