Evening star., 1920-02-20
TROPHIES Of WAR
IN HOLY LAND HERE
Collection on Display Pic
lures Great Campaign That
Subdued Turks.

An invaluable collection of trophies
was brought to America by Lowell
Thomas. the only observer who was
given an opportunity to obtain the
story and pictorial record of the great
campaign which freed the Holy Land
from the Turks. and is now on dis
play in one of Woodward & Lothrop S
show windows.
Mr. Thomas has just arrived in
America from a siX-month stay in
London, where more than one million
people saw and heard his motion mic
ture production, The Last of the Cru
saders.'' This arabian Nights enter
tainm ent is now playing at the Shu-
bert-Garrick Theater
Flags Are Displayed.
The white muslin flag displayed in
the window is the flag Of truce car
ried by the mayor of Jerusalem when
he surrendered the Holy city to Gen.
Lord Allenbys army.
The red silk flag on which are en-
broidered the Turkish star and cres
cent is the flag which William Ho
henzollern. ex-kaiser of Germany,
placed on the tomb of Saladin in Da-
mascus. When the victorious Arabian
army. led by the mysterious young
archeolOgist, Col. Thomas Lawrence.
and the British army, led by Field
Marshal Lord Alienby. drove the
Turks from Damascus this flag was
taken from Saladin's tomb by Prince
Feisal. the new ruler of Syria and
presented to Mr.. Thomas.
The red white. green and black silk
flag was the Arabian headquarters
standard carried one thousand miles
across the desert from Mecca to Da-
mascus by Prince Fesal and Col
| Lawrence in their campaign for the
liberation of Holy Arabia
The large red muslin banner is the
flag from the Turkish headquarters
in Bethlehem.
Only Allied Flag to Fly.
The battered French flag is the
only allied flag which was raised in
Palestine during the great war Gen.
-Allenby gave strict orders that no
flags We're to be carried by the
troops in order that the campaign
should not be considered as one of
conquest. TO this day not even a
British flag has flown over the walls
of Jerusalem. The French Algerians.
however, carried this flag al the way
from Egypt to the slopes of Mount
Carmel. where it was seen by Allenby
and ordered down.
The officers on Field Marshal Lord
Allenby's staff in Palestine. a s a joke,
organized a corporation for bottling
the waters of the Dead sea. They
actually prepared a few bottles and
sent them to friends in Lordon, where
chemists analyzed the water and dis
covered it has remarkable medicinal
qualities. and the water is now being
paced on the market under the name
of Mother Lots Old Established
Aperient" or Dead Sea Saline" This
Dead sea water was the favorite bev-
erage of the Australian Camel Corps.
Ancient Arabic Manuscript.
The Arabic manuscript in the dis
play of trophies is very ancient and
from the library of the Great Mosque
at GAIA, the ancient capital of the
land of the Philistines. the third
largest city of the Holy Land. which
was almost entirely destroyed by the
Turkish and British artillery during
the great war.
The Arab costume in the display is
one which the mysterious Col. Law
renee, known as the uncroWned King
OF Arabia" wore in the desert while
leading his army of 100000 wild Be
douins mounted on racing camels and
feet Arabian horses.
While appearing at the Covent
Garden Royal Opera House in Lon
DON Mr.. Thomas was offered 10000
for these trophies. The chief of the
war trophy division of the British
army has given an official certifica te
guaranteeing the authenticity of the
articles in the display
After Mr.. Thomas has completed
two-year tour of the world with THE
Last of the Crusaders" he intends to
turn the collection over to some mu-
scum for the benefit ofsposterity.
During the last three years Mr.
Thomas and his staff of photographers
were attached to the intelligence de-
partment of all the allied armies and
journeyed a distance of over 10000
miles gathering historical material.