Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-09-17

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V into the Promised Land. To
day the Palestine Military
railway is doing it between midnight
and dawn, every day of The week,
writes Clair Price in Asia. ! stood at
my carriage window, entering Pales-
tine to the metrOnome-click of 30 miles
an hour Below me the rails were
bedded in golden saad, up the slope
of which the greer of the adjacent
fields lay like surf on a yellow beach.
Ludd was a small railroad yard in
vast pool of sand, with Welsh coal
cinders speaking its yellow exnanse.
With its passengers leaning ont its
windows calling into the station
crowd ava weled," the Officers Spe-
shortly after seven o'clock and came
to dignifed stop alongside the nGtle
''jerk-water' train for Jerusalem.
An Arab weled, wearing a fez and a
station porter's brassard. strapped
my luggage TO his head, transferred it
to the Jerusalem train. demanded a
tip of ten piastres 600 cents). accept
ed half the amount and was finally
routed with the wrathSl air of a man
who has staked gold mine and has
found it contained only quartz. The
Jerusalem train consisted of a London
& Southwestern locomotive and rhree
ancient Egyptian State Railways PAS
seneer cars, bearing on their wooden
sides the chaIked words which desig-
mated them for Officers 'batmen'
and civilians"
Arrival at Jerusalem.
finally lost interest in the fldgety
train and went to sleep. It was an
Arab porter's "Khowajah, khowajah,"
which brought me bolt upright and
awake. He was gathering up my lug
gage. The rest of the passengers had
left. followed him out of the car
and into the crowd Of British soldiers
in pith helmets and shorts, Egyptian
military policemen in fezzes and
shorts. Baluchistan soldiers in turbans
and shorts. Zionists In khaki drill, and
native porters, who moved about on
the fenced-off platform. My porter
led me into the cool dusk of the Gus
toms barrier, on toward the quaran-
tine barrier and thence around to the
area of the station. Jerusalem was
nowhere in sight. I climbed into an
arbuggy. with eyes narrowed TO Sits
against the glare of the limestone sur
faces, and was driven away from the
station at gallop to the accompani-
ment of a furious jangling OF bells
and the harsh grinding of iron tires
on crushed limestone road. We
rounded the low hill and sighted
Jerusalem a mile away--a savage
rayine ribboned with glaring white
roads and crowded on the farther
slope by a huge modern German
church with a brief length of ancient
gray wall retiring modestly beyond it.
On the very roof of Palestine. over
looking the Dead sea, d quarter Of
mile below the keels Of the craft off
Jaffa the walled city of Jerusalem
lies between the Hinnom and Jehosha-
nhat ravines. as New York city lies
between the North and East rivers. 1t
overaows into a dusty red-and-white
modern suburb TO the north, as New
York overfows into the Bronx.
Aaifa's New Importance.
The physical Jerusalem is small,
but the spiritual Jerusalem is the
scene of such q world panorama that,
although went there TO stay a day or
two. ! should be there yet, had I not
cast a fieetIng glimpse at the expense
account With a movement order to
Haifa. I finally drove back to the
Jerusalem station one evening, and,
feeling axe ALI Bahia returning to a
stark world after six miraculous
weeks in the Robbers Cave boarded
the fussy little train that conveys Of
hcers over the Jerusalem-Ludd line.
Halfa IS like Atlantic City in the
wash Of its surf. Il is Ike Florida ln
the wide. white streets Of its Germaa
colony. II is like Manitou In its green
zlopes Of Mount Carmel. tits like tha
orient IN the narrow, yaulted street.
Of its native quarter. The war la.