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rious advance until they had banishcd
the crescent from the Holy Land for


rious advance until they had banishcd
| the crescent from the Holy Land for
ever.
AIlenby a Modern Hercules.
| Allenby is a modern Hercules. None
but the largest camels could carry him.
, and when he mounted one it resembled
one mountain on .top OF another. On
| one occasion his Rolls-Royce sank up
/ TO its hubs in quicksand and salt on
| the shores. of the Dead sea. oyef
thousand feet below sea-level The
, Dead sea valley is the hottest place
! on the planet. No animals live there
and human beings just gasp. This &C
mercury had nearly burst the bulb at
1870 degrees above. Instead of allow
! ing his men to do it, Alfenby insisted
on crawling through slime, scooping
! out room to lie down under the car
and then using his enormous hands as
shoveIs he scooped out the white mud
around all four wheels SO the car could
J be pulled out by his stan captain
! oliver" When he crawled out the
| conqueror Of the Holy Land was ABB
! with a mass of. oozy slime. But no
| body laughed.
He was particularly popular with the
! Tommies and AnZacs. but his gen
ereals were afraid of him. because " hen
! things didn't go right you could , near
1 "A
i "Greenland's icy mountains to indias
coral strand" as We used to sing N
Sunday school.
| One would expect great military
leader like Allenby to be conversant
with military tactics and the history
Of war. However. 1t is a bit extraor.
binary to find the leader Of q great
army a bookman and naturalist. But
| Field Marshal Allenby probably
knows as much as any man living
nd
and birds of the Holy Land. He sta
toned a Yorkshire sergeant at q wa
! tering place which migratory BIRDS
frequented, and whenever q new spe-
cies arrived the commander er-tn-chief
would forget the cares OF his cam
paign and slip OF to the pond to see
the bird for himself. He Is the type
of man whom John Burroughs would
make a boon companion. Although ne
wore uniforms of the same material
he has another side to his nature. He
reads Greek and Latin fiuently. and
he carried with him on his campaign
George Adam Smiths Geography OF
the Holy Land and the Bible.
| Capture Of Jerusalen Dramatic.
| When Allenby captured Jerusalem
| he had accomplished one Of the most
! that Richard Coeur de Lion could do
was to reach the top of Nebf Sanwil
| Hill and get a view OF the Holy City.
He succeeded where both C0eur de
Lion and Napoleon BonAparte failed.
In his last drive. after the capture Of
| Jerusalem, his cavalry swept north
over three hundred miles in six weeks.
, and when he stood aStride the Berlin
to-Bagdad railway near Aeppo the
| kaisers dream for MittA Europa
and a world empire vanished INTO thin
air. .. -
In the swiftness with which It over;
came the enemy, and in the 6nality OF
it's success. this last drive In Palestine
was a battle which has no parallel in
history. It was battle OF dreams:'
the kind of a campaign that all great
military leaders dream about and few
carry out. It was battle without a
tomorrow.
|. Note.-TomcErow Mr.. Lowell Thomas will
describe the capture Of Jerusalem, the detaNs
of which have never been told.
Copyright, 1870. BY Lowell Ihomas.l