The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-30
DOES TURKISH
 TREATY FORECAST ! U. 5. 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 ttreveIations'' in a story of FIusein of Mecca and his allies, ap- bearing in the July Century Maga- zine- Himself 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 Ga 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 1t 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 1ast-however. late and reluctant 1y-been able to agree that some thing drastic shall be done to the Unspeakab1e 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 a chance to balance the reports
 
 an inside account of the origin and groundwork of the Arabian nation aIist claims.
 But the most attractive thing about this contribution is the readable tale as simply exciting as a gIorified Henty book, though of a vastly diff ferent literary quality-of how the actual entry of Husein into the Great War was unexpectedly precipitated hU a my n,-iO in11r of Athmar von Stotzinger through Red Sea villages with 1.-two aides, a 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. tfBut one never knows in the East,'' says M. Hogarth. Less than month later a signal, transmitted by Red Sea patrol ship, informed Cairo that the emir had communicated his intention to ] revolt without further delay for ur- gent, but unspecifed reasons, and i begged instantly that a representative ! of the British Government repair to l the Hedjaz coast to hear his plans and confer with Abdullah. The news 1 caused equal consternation and sur- l prise.
 Nevertheless while in honor we
 
 l fate, we must at least know what was toward. Storrs, being known 1 to Abdullah, wa&deputied to go to | the Hedjaz coast, and K Cornwallis 1 and I went with him, we being the 1 officers of the then infant Arab l Bureau
 | ''It was a very warm ship that | took us down the Red Sea, curious l what we were to hear. Touching at | | messenger, We learned little more 1 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 foI | conference. So we ferried the old sheik across through wicked reefs i by a passage known probably to nc large craft except our ships, and
 brought him to a blistered strand north of Jiddah, where his home stood among few palms and sandy patches of cornland. In the evening
 we carried him on southward ant
 landed him at the nearest point tt Mecca. Making tryst with him tol the third day, we turned northwart to fill in time standing on and of the bIockaded coast A make,
 fisherman padded his bark cano through the sharkinfested sea to tel
 
 and a, German lady gone southwar, to Yanfbo a few days before, and ol the morrow, off Yambo itself, w heard of this party again as lodge, with the Turkish governor of tn 5 fort; but we passed on southward 2 believing in nothing but some sudde; advent of Europeanizedr Turks in un II familiar uniforms.
 \ 'The fisherman, however, had no D
 \ lurked the secret of the precipitatio ! of the Hedjaz revolt Germans ha ' indeed come down from eI-AIa, on tn ! Hedjaz Railway to Yanbo, includin \ a, major on the staff, Baron Othma \ von Stotzingen, with at least tw k aides. His body servant was an In f dian deserted from our side, wit whom he communicated in English his interpreter, the notorious Je, ex-Storekeeper, ex-prisoner of tn califate, Heinrich Neufeld; the lat ter's Kurdish bride from Damascu.
 some fifty years his junior. Tht party was doing just what we ha
 used to fear; namely, organizing sta \ tions for enemy offense and propa E ganda down the Red Sea coast, coir \ cidently with the march of a picke
 Turkish force from Medina an Mecca to the south. That force, al \ \ but reported by Sherif Ali to h
 father, had determined Husein to re | volt at once lest a worse thing be \ fall him. Fl '"The sheik duly kept the tryst o | the third day bringing word frol \ Mecca that not Abdu1lah, but tf \ youngest brother, Zeid, would be c \ the shore at daybreak a few rnilt | farther south. The revolt wasyan b, \ declared, and AbduI1ah must stay t \ his father: '*We had not come so far to see \ boy, but there was no help for \ and we slipped down before suns \ to an anchorage as near as might l
 to the reefs which guarded u \ desolate spot appointed. The day W; \ we'll begun, however, before al
 horsemen could be described novi1 - down through the dunes, and whe = we rowed in, pumping over the cora
 the June sun was fierce. Cavalry al \ peared above the beach, and Stor ! was bidden alone to the tent pr | pared, while the rest of us had \ grill on a molten sf1ade1ess sea- .
 last he reappeared, leading Zeid al \ pockmarked man well known in u