The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-06

toward the Jewish Institute of Tech nology at the foot Of Mount Carmel were two Germans, James Simon and pr. Paul Nathan. They became mem- bers of the governing board. When the board sought to pass a resolution introducing Hebrew as the sole lan- guage of instruction in the school, the German members suddenly rose up and opposed it. They demanded that all scientific and technical sub jects be taught in German. The con- troversy which ensued over this Ian guage question was one of the first battles fought in the Great War.
 The Jews won their victory. When the Germans pushed through their plan in their doged Prussian fashion, the friends, of the Hebrew language resigned in body. At Jaffa, at Je rusalem and at Haifa, meetings of protest were held and resolutions were passed demanding g. reconsideration. The students of the school protested, but their pro-German director ignored them. The teachers protested. Dr. Nathan overruled them. Thereupon, teachers and students resigned to- gether, and went over to a new He brew school. The fight continued, 1 with the result that six new institu- tions were opened by the Zionists at | all of which Hebrew alone was taught. Thus the attempt to Prussanize Pal estine had already been morally de- feated before the war broke out.
 Zionist Troops in the War But the language war was merely a clash of cultures, a battle of prin ciples fought to a finish without blood shed. Since then, the devoted Zionists of Palestine have taken part in actual warfare. They are now fighting among Entente troops for the cause of democracy as valiantly as any sol l diers.
 One organization of Jewish soldiers 1 played a part in the glorious but ill., fated Gallipoli campaign. This force, known as the Zion Mule Corps, was organized from among those Jews who were compelled to flee from Pal estine at the outbreak of the war be-
 cause they refused to become Otto man subjects. Untrained in the arts of war, yet eager to d their bit, they volunteered for the unmartial tasks that are a part of any military cam paign.
 They were prepared to carry water 1 and to lead the mules carrying ammu- l milton to the first line trenches. They were placed under the command of | Col. Patterson, that brilliant Irish man, who has since sung their fame in the notable book entitled with the 1 af Na11 in hi oh h a fo1I 1IS how in the face of shot and shell, in the very thick of the fray, they went resolutely about their task. And he tells of that remarkable moment when the Royal Installing regiment had gotten into a tight place. These mule teers abandoned their appointed tasks, not to flee to a place of safety, but to jump into the trench, and taking rifles from dead soldiers hands. fought as valiantly as "the ladies from hell'' and won the day.
 Out of this Zion Mule Corps has grown the Jewish Legion, organized in America, England and Canada from among. Jews who for one reason or another (except physicaD are ineligi- ble to the draft in the country of their residence. Fifteen hundred have already gone to Palestine from America, and they have joined at the front the Jewish regiment which was organized in London, and which has already received it's baptism of fire somewhere north of Jaffa. Other contingents. are preparing to go from America and still others from Canada. There is hard fighting ahead of Pales- | tine but these men are going prenar-
 ed to make the supreme sacrifice be-
 cause they know that in doing this,
 they are giving their utmost to speed
 the day when the blue and white flag
 of Zion, with the six-cornered star ot
 David in the centre will float proudly
 among the flags of the free nations
 Major Henry L. Higginson, founder