The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1919-08-14
PASSES THROUGH
LONGEST TUNNEL
FRANK LEE AND THREE OTHERS
RIDE COWCATCHER FOR MILES
In PITCH DARKNESS.
EXPECTS TO BE HOME SOON
C0NSTANTINOPLE VERY INTER-
Es5llNG PLACE-ENGLISH SAY
IURAS FOUGHT FAIR.

ConstaEtlnopie, 1ul..ey, july II, 1919.
Dear Every One:
LlCuIe d,u L lLlnis one year ago to-
day that would De IN TINS city, OF ali
pI..cco. we AtIL 4aIeppo, syria, the
-.io-iung OF jury 9th, having spent a
very q,.ieG 4rn thee. lAere was a
parry ol IA OF US and We mad three
COX cars all the way through. We
spent nve days Oh the trip through
Asia Minor and it VISA very interest
-ng I'VE Gays. Our first stop out OF
Aleppo was Adana. You have doubt
'-oo ilcard OF Adana as it was the
scene of the big Armenian massacre
IN 1866 when about 10000 Armenians
ere killed in and around the city.
From Adana we proceeded to Konia,
another very important city of Turk
ey; in this city is the morgue anu
tomb of the organizer of the famous
Whirling Dervishers. We visited the
mosque and the tomb and it was very
interesting. They were not whirling.
the day we were there as Friday is
the only day Of the week they put on
a real whirlins, bowling display.
The railroad over which we came
is the Berlin to Bagdad road and 1T
IS undoubtedly the best road in the
world. The engineering and roadbed
is simply wonderful. The car equip
inent and engines are some what run
down owing to the war. We passed
through the longest tunnel in the
world, 71a miles long through the
Tauraus mountains. This tunnel is
through solid rock and to impress the
fact upon, the train men that we were
Americans, two nurses and myself
and another man insisted on riding
through on the COW catcher. The
engineer tried to gesture US out of
the notion, making signs that rocks
were constantly falling from the roof
as the work was only recently COM
pleted. Any way we stuck TO the
ship and I must say that riding on
the front of an engine which, did
not have a sign Of a head light,
through 71s miles of inky darkness,
not knowing what minute you were
going to hit a caved in place or an
other train, was quite exciting.
I was very fol tunate in having as
a CON :, ZION in my car. VIM. T. Ellis.
of the New York Herald. He is a
very fine man and one of the best
known correspondents in America. Ii
you watch the Minneapolis Tribune
you will see many articles on Syria,
Egypt and Palestine written by him.
When we arrived here he was hand
ed cablegram from the New York
Herald advising him that the Senate
was making an investigation as to
treatment he received in Egypt and
If was creating quite sensation In
America. am still with him here
and am enjoying many privileges
through his acquaintance and reputa-
ton. He is leaving tomorrow on the
American Destroyer, Barney" direct
TO-, New York and Washington. This
boat is going to try and break the
worlds record between here and New
York. It is one of our new DESTROY
e-s and generally conceded to be the
fastest ship in the American Navy.
They are taking him as a special
fava- and on the order of the Admiral
here who advised him to hasten to
America and tell what he knew of this
rart Of the world, at this critical time.
am sending this letter with him and
it viii be mailed in New York and
should reach you in the shortest time
any mail ever travelled between this
eitv and United States.
Next to Rome I guess this is the
most interesting place I have been in.
Nothing but soldiers everywhere and
the greatest display of uniforms that
obtains any place in the world today
as every one of the Allies have solz
diers here. French, Russian, British,
Roumania, Greeks, Italy, Serbia,
Hejes, and several of the small Slav
nations which were at war with
Turkey are we'll represented on the
streets. There are many Turkish
soldiers and they seem to be pretty
good fellows and strange to say none
of the Allied soldiers, especially the
British, hold any hard feelings toward
them. The British to man speak
word of praise for him as clean
fighter.
As I write this letter ! can look
put over the Golden Horn and the
Bospherous and see the men of war
Of most of the Allied Governments