The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-07-02
KHSH ESPIONAGE BAND HELPED BEAT
TURKS BY REPORTING TO SUBMARINES
Story Of How Young Palessinian Jewry Aided the
British and The Allies Reads Like Fiction-One
Disappeared While in the Desert Disguised AS
Bcdouin. Several Were Hanged ard Girl and Her
Father We're Tortured.
BIZ MARION WETNsTnIN.


theza daSs that Turkey forfeited thelr
loyalty. They pIctNed themselves 10
ave their homes and their land. 10
OTTER thew lives 10 tho allies cause.
Direct enlistment whn impossible
Tor he British we're SIN no further
contribution 20 rnlcatine's liberation
mast be tie work az hAn6, "lntclli-
gencc" or as II came TO be called In
the county, ~''eepiouagc." rhcy saw
their Heryicr ~ twSeold: TO mako
known 70 tho civilized world the Turk.
Ian Aisocifio8 and 20 furnish the BRIT
lah with political and military infor-
npatlon to hasten the.s Victorious ud-
vance into the Holy Land. n waf an
easy matter 70 buy their way out OF
the Turkish ranks.
Swum Out to Warship.
Tho agricultural experiment station
at Athlit OF which Aaron Ant onaohli
wns the head now became the ccnfef
OF darinE deeds. u was here that
Ahsalom Felnborn 81 Chederah. at the
close Of 1915. SWAN out into tho Medi-
tcrranean. hailed an allied cruiser Oh
ita wny 70 Eg5pt whore hc succeeded
IN onllsting tho little band IN the Brit
ish service. n was here. too. TINT an
English submarine cnme periodically
20 get the Invaluable information
Eafhored IN Palestine by these young
Jews for tho generals deep in plans
across the Suez.
sarah Aaronsohn herself twice
made a submarine trip to Port said.
n was her custom 10 CLEAN fatal facts
In tho German hotel IN Jerusalem.
where the Teuton commander Won
Kress and Meissner pashn. his chief
railway engineer. spoke too freely.
with no suspicion OF the lovely Jew
ess.
BY his undcrsssa means Of COM
municailon. too. the world learned ! IN
t~wcnty-rour honrs Of the evacuation
or Jaffa hv the Turkish commander h.
chief IN 1917. Aaron karonsohn. who
worked IN Egypt. made n his busi-
ness 20 let the world know.
british Wcfe Preparing.
Meanwhile the British were prepar-
ing for action. Their main physical
ohstncle in the Palestine campaign. as
every one knows was the lack Of
water. but thanks To The Aaronsohn
Intelligence" squad. when thet made
thtlr initial push. laying railway
tracks 1875 miles through the Sinai
desert from the Suez To Judd at the
rate Of that a mile n dnv, they
knew every water source TO the mt
nriest detaf.
Across the desert waste picked men
Of the Zichrcn Iacob league now
began. n nv one. discussing as Ne
dcuinH. 10 forge their way. The
moss daring was Ahssiom Fem
berg. twcnty-acvcn. Palestine horn.
educated In France and y p-nmisirn
ncat Twice he croured the Aands 10
this British headquarters. The third
time he Ventured forth with "a fore-
bodine And no never refnrred His
romfndes IN Egypt later irnrned that
the Turks had sent . band OF he
aou,rs ~ ~ IN whit for him. They
found their wav bark. nraOnR Thorn
1oseph pnvidesco, whom I met IN
Xichrop Jacob.
RFufai Turkish Tluent.
Tho TURKS in the meoVfime were
not idle. Thrv wrrrifod tho oxperi-
ment .snfion ~ Amt Thew sur
rounded the whole colony Of Zichrqr