Republican farmer., 1920-07-02
DOES TURKISH
 TREATY FORECAST |. U. s. OF ARABIA?
Revolt Against Turkey Has Earned Independence
 For Arabs.

Especial Correspondence) .- New York. June 3o-D. G. Hogarth, the archaeological explorer, geographer, author and expert on the Near East, makes one of the most romantic of after-war revelations" in a story of Husein of Mecca and his allies. ap- bearing in the July Century Maga- zine. Himself a British political mes senger to Hedjaz, he was present at the strange interview at a lonely spot on the shore of the Red Sea, with the son of Husein Ca mere lad) which determined British backing of a free Arabia.
 The whole episode is one of the most picturesque incidents of the war. Moreover, an understanding of it seems to clear ones vision a bit of the dust clouds beaten up by the con tinuous series of baby wars in the Near East. While the Turkish treaty shows plainly that the Powers have at last-however, late and reluctant ly-been able to agree that some thing drastic shall be done to the Unspeakable Turk, the actual settle ment is, in view of all the seething aspirations and secret understand ings, still a puzzle. MT. Hogarth's article in The Century gives Ameri- cans chance to balance the reports Oi TeVlVlnS 1uTk1Sn. ndl1OndllSIn W1la an inside account of the origin and groundwork of the Arabian nation alist claims.
 But the most attractive thing about this contribution is the readable tale as simply exciting as a glorified Henty book, though of a vastly diff ferent literary quality-of how the actual entry of Husein into the Great War was unexpectedly precipitated by a mysterious journey of one Baron Athmar von Stotzinger through Red Sea villages with 1.-two aides, body servant, an interpreter and a Ger
 man lady,"
 It had not been expected that Husein would actually enter the war at once-if ever. But one never knows in the East" says M. Hogarth.
 Less than a month later a signal, transmitted by a Red Sea patrol ship, informed Cairo that the emir had communicated his intention to revolt without further delay for ur- gent, but unspecified reasons, and begged instantly that a representative of the British Government repair to the Hedjaz coast to hear his plans and confer with Abdullah. The news caused equal eonsternation and sur prise.
 Nevertheless while in honor we could not abandon the enir to his fate, we must at least know what was toward. Storrs, being known to Abdullah, was deputied to go to the Hedjaz coast, and K Cornwallis and I went with him, we being the
 officers of the then infant Arab Bureau <
 Tt was a very warm ship that took aus down the Red Sea, curious what we were to hear. Touching at Port Sudan to pick up the emir's messenger, We learned little more than that his master meant all he had said; but not being over sure of us, wished to see his man again be- fore appointing a time and place for conference. So we ferried the old sheik across through wicked reefs by a passage known probably to no large craft except our ships, and brought him to a blistered strand north of Jiddah, where his home stood among a few palms and sandy patches of cornland. In the evening we carried him on southward and landed him at the nearest point to l Mecca. Making tryst with him for i the third day, we turned northward | to fill in time standing on and off l the blockaded coast. ** A naked 1 fisherman padded his bark canoe 1 through the shark-infested sea to tell 1 an incredible tale of German officers and a German lady gone southward | to Yambe a few days before, and on l the morrow, off Yambo itself, we ] heard of this party again as lodged with the Turkish governor of the | fort; but we passed on southward 1 believing in nothing but some sudden
 advent of Europeanized Turks in un- l familiar uniforms.
 1 The fisherman, however, had not l been decieved, and in his tale haG l lurked the secret of the precipitation l of the Hedjaz revolt. Germans had | indeed come down from el-Ala on the | Hedjaz Railway to Yanlbo, including
 a major on the staff, Baron Othmal
 von stotzingen, with at least twe | aides. His body servant was an In. dian deserted from our side, witt
 whom he communicated in English | his interpreter, the notorious Jew | eX-storekeeper, ex-prisoner of the
 califate, Heinrich NeufeId; the lat
 ter's Kurdish bride from Damascus 1 some fifty years his junior. Thi.
 party was doing just what we hac
 used to fear; namely, organizing sta ] tions for enemy offense and propa 1 ganda down the Red Sea coast, coin | cidently with the march of a picked | Turkish force from Medina ant | Mecca to the south. That force ap | bearing in Medina unknown to us but reported by Sherif Ali to hi l father, had determined Husein to re
 volt at once lest a worse thing be
 fall him.
 '"The sheik duly kept the tryst o1
 the third day bringing word iron
 Mecca that not Abdullah, but tn
 youngest brother, Zeid, would be ol
 the shore at daybreak a few mile farther south. The revolt was all bu | declared, and Abdullah must stay b
 his father.
 ! "We had not come so far to see
 boy, but there was no help for il
 and we slipped down before sunse | to an anchorage as near as might b | to the reefs which guarded tn desolate spot appointed. The day wa well begun, however, before an horsemen could be described movin
 down through the dunes, and whe we rowed in, pumping over the cora , the June sun was fierce. Cavalry ap peared above the beach. and Storr 1 was bidden alone to the tent pre- , pared. while the rest of us had t grill on a molten shadeless sea. A