The Washington herald., 1918-02-06
SAY CAPTURE
OF JERUSALEM
IS MILLENNIUM
Inhabitants Consider Brit
ish as Deliverers, Says
Former u. S. Consul.

British possession Of Jerusalem has
long been looked forward to as q
millennium by the inhabitants Of the
Holy City. according to DR.. Otis
Glazebrook. former American consul
at Jerusalem. who has recently re-
turned from Europe.
! although I had left Jerusalem
some time before the British took
the city, know with what rejoicing
the change Of government must have
been received by the inhabitants.
The suffering In Jerusalem, while L
was stationed there was horrible.
Virtually all of the civilian popula-
tion was suffering from mal-nutri-
ton, and in many instances the
people were little short of living
skeletons"
Was o. 8. Consul.
DR.. Glazebrook was consul at
Jerusalem from the beginning of the
war until last spring. and during his
stay there had occasion to study eco
nomic conditions generally.
The Bedouins, or nomadic tribes
who inhabit the region east Of the
River Jordon, are the principal grain
raisers.
They. like everybody else, refused
to sell unless they were paid in gold
or silver coin. and, of course. very
few people could get coin. The
money changers, remembering the
Balkan situation, were chary OF ex-
changing paper money at all, and
when they did 1t was at exorbitant
rates. So that money sent 70 Pales-
tine from America, for instance, was
the sender thought he was sending
for relief among the sufferers"
DIR. Glazebrook stated that although
efforts TO force the producers to ac-
cept paper money. they had failed
entirely.
THE Bedouins are an unruly
people," he said. They cannot be
drafted into the Turkish army for
the very simple reason that they Kill
the soldiers who come TO enforce the
draft They live in a country of
which little is known, except to them
selves. and have no fear Of anything
or anybody"
There is really not enough food in
Palestine to feed both the civilian
population and the military" said DT.
Glazebrook, and, of course. the gov
ernhent took the provisions for the
soldiers. 1 believe, however. that the
menace of disease is the greatest fear
the inhabitants OF Jerusalem have.
The Turk. coming from a country
where water is scarce, knows little of
sanitation, and nothing whatever OF
modern methods along this line"
Armenian Massacres.
DR.. Glazebrook stated that all the
romantic ideas Of the hospitality of
the Turk were founded on fact.
The Turk or the Bedouin may rob
you after you leave his house." he
SAID. but while you are under his
roof and claim hospitality he will pro-
tect you even,to peril of his own life
/ and against any one, even the Off
GERS of the law-and the Turk mas no
love for the German"
DIR. Glazebrook stated that it Was
the common belief in Palestine that
Germany has fomented and engineered
the Armenian massacreS.
THE impression there Is" he said.
that the whole thing was the work
Of German cunning and Jnoroughness
of execution. If anything so horrible
could be termed successful, The Arme-
nian massacres were the most dia-
bolically perfect successes. They were
skillfully planned and executed to the
letter, and Palestine believes that it
could not have been accomplished by
the Turk