The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1919-07-02

Nhich later auuh into tnt occaK.
III you 10 not tell me everything In
three days. the Turkish commandment
threatened the elders OF the COM
munity, Il shall turn you an over 10
ms two hundred soldiers here. with
the order that they do with yau what
they wish, 20 a man. woman a
child
The little synagoguc became a scene
OF wniling and prayer by day and BY
night. Terror and panic FELL upon the
settlement alone on It's Samaritan hill
In the modest Ahronsohn cottage at
tho end OF the main lane Of the
colony a tragedy wis culminaiins.
Sarah AaronHohn. warmed In vain
three days before to escape, was near
Ing her fate.
Aged Man Was Tortured.
Tho Turkish officials. In the ah-
aence OF her brothers, vented their
wrath upon her. For a week they
tortured her In her own room. she
remained proud and silent Then
they sought 10 move her through her
father. Before her eyes they bent
his man more han seventy yeats
old. four hundred strokes "A day upon
the soles OF his feet. They put hot
irons under his arms. hut her only
answer was words of courage TO him
Sn Hebrew; DO not weaken, father.
/ can bear ALL" Ard as the agony
crept into the AGED mans veins he
drew strength crying aloud his peo-
pies century-old prayer. Hear @
Israel. the Lord ="
The Turkish commandment ext
vainly tried TO force "a confession from
Sarah A~aronsohn through five davis
solitary confinement. on the last day
OF her Imprisonment the order went
forth That she be dcported TO the OF
tomon center, Nazareth. She realized
he time FOR tho supreme sacrifice
had come. She asked TO be led to her
home FOR n final change OF clothing
Up the stony slope she hurried. n ropc
tied about rel wrist She reached the
low white cottage with It's trim lawn.
she stepped n her room. The
guard felt a lug at the rope and al
o az the same momcnt a sho; rang
out. They found her In a heap by
her bedside.
Jcwc~s Brave To the last.
For five days she fingered. To the
last her thoughts were Of Paicsune's
liberation. TO which she had given her
young. glowing life. You mas spill
Innocent blood" were her dying words
10 the Turks. but you cannot keep
the British from Palestine
She WIS right Even then the Brit
ish guns were booming toward GAIA
and B~eersheha. Two weeks later the
khRiicd columns poured into those
shattered towns.
From zichron Jacob the bloody trail
or the Espionage" ran through
Rishon le Zion, Chederah. Kinnercth.
Mesha- femma. Tipcrias, Hosh PIN
nah, Nazareth aud the n-Ortherumost
Jewish colony Metullah. under snowy
Hermon. The Turks pursued their re-
lentless inquisitiOn OF the colonists.
whose protests OF Innocence were true
enough. For the espionage" was
necessarily a deep secret and the work
or but "A hundred or less young Jews
all told. The only connection those
colonies had with the system was the
mere accident That two Of the work
era, Joseph Lashansky Of Galilee and
Nahum Belkind OF Rishon. both lutcr
caught and hanged. ran through their
lanes by night In their attempts to es-
tape from pursuing Turks.
Next TO Zichron Jacob. Nazareth
b main scene OF Jewish torture.
Here Hassan By, the chief medical
officer. specialized IN brutality. Ho
personally supervised and added 10
the torment OF scores Of Jews. men
and women, brought from the colonies
Samaria and Inlllee and i'm
prisoned In monasteries and hospitals.
u WIS said he kicked tn death sarah
cousin. Reuben Schwartz
saw him with his lean gray face.
fint-like eyes and thin lips nj HIS mill
trial IN Haifa last Mnrch. IIe
still wore his gray field %overcoat and
a purple Arab honddroas. Alexander
Aaronsohn had captured him tn his
home IN Aleppo. For DAYS the
evidence OF his ~inhumnnitisS piled W.
but thanks 70 the Turkish machinerg
III Justice. which the British under iu-
iernau9nnl law must continue 10 use
.n occupied Palestine. he escaped with
vonrs' imprisonment.
From Nazareth many of these Jew
sh rolCuisfg, weakened with norgingF.
we're driven on foot 10 Afule. on iu
damascus and sometimes clear 90
onsinntinople. Stables were their
along the way. There were
~ many Of these wandering bands
hat they were referred 10 Tor con-
Fonicnce according 10 their numbers.
3k." the a." "the gG."
This ~ the story bohind General
Nilenhy's words: - decorate YOU for
helping me 10 conquer Palestine"
liut what Alexander Aaronsohn secs
In this red memory iE n bcucon shed
ding undying hope upon his native
country, the ancient land Of his faith
nrs and the coming home Of his ma
I'm the darkest hours" ne told lhtr
In the quiet OF that Haifa hotel, mis-
young ives prophetic, his voice 10
rich quiver. 1T makes mo sure uf
lions victory. A land that can pro-
i've such souls az Sarah anu
Absaiom IN n generation. prOto
OF the new Judacnns. is "a hand
worth fighting FOR, % land worth dyirr
for, n Ian with n glorious future
An oil offender was brought up be-
a well known london magistrate