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of any town. There was not the faint
est trace of pomposity about him. He
was simply charming man, laughing
rather shyly over all the furore and
gladly autographing any slip of paper
that was pushed in front of him. Then
he quietly slipped out and was gone.
Allenby is every whit as modest a
hero as the spectacular young stratcgist'
T. e. Lawrence, who led the right wing
of his army in the final movement that
overwhelmed the Turks.
But as he stood in the box in Covent
Garden that afternoon. with Lady AL
lenby on his arm, it was not difficult to
see. In this affable, towering military
man, the conqueror VINO made his entry
into Jerusalem afoot, walking with his
officers, an inconspicuous figure OBJ
scured among the rest For when AL
lenby made his official entry into the
Holy City he purposely put four others
directly in front just so that he would
not appear too prominently In our mo-
ton pictures.
Many another military leader would
have said, The East needs pomp and
circumstance, so We must put on
great parade to impress these Orien-
tals.' No doubt that is what the Kaiser
had in mind, as an excuse for his
vanity, when on his visit to the Otto
man Empire he made that grotcSque
'triumpllal entry" into Jerusalem-in
time of perfect peace.
Dislike for Hurrah.
But Allenby would have none of It..
He displayed thorough dislike for all
hurrah and bugling of conches. In
fact, of all the praise and acclaim
heaped upon him there was only one
fiaring bit, 50 far as know, that gave
him any delight. And how he gloated
and chuckled over It'll You might have
thought it case of his name being
carved in a stone cliff for all eternity.
But, ah,. no! 1t was none of that. The
news somehow reached us out East, and
just how true it was cannot say, that
an enterprising mid-Western American
newspaper heralded the sweep of his
forces through Bethlehem with the
following banner headline:
ALLENBY CAPTURES
CHRISTS HOME TOWN.
When Allenby learned of this you
could hear his laugh all the way from
Dan to Beersheba. 1t was seldom you
could get him to talk of his deeds, but
he was never reluctant to refer to his
capture of Bethlehem merely as a pre-
lude to telling about that cryptic Amer
lean newspaper headline.
Allenby's entrance into the Near
Eastern campaign was characteristic.
Affairs in the region of the Holy Land
had gone rather badly for the allies
and when / say allies / really mean
British, because the French and Italian
detachments were only there for diplo-
matte reasons and to make sure of
sharing the spoiis at the finish The
Turks had made spectacular advance
across the wilderness of Sinai. They
had suddenly swooped out of the desert
and launched an attack on the Sue2
Canal, the jugular vein OF the British
Empire. The British, Indians and An
zacs, had pushed them back. But the
measures taken along the canal were
SO largely defensive, instead of offensive,
that they provided Lord Kitchener with
glorious chance for one of his sar-
castle flashes of grim humor. When
ne made hurried visit to the Egyptian
front and looked over the elaborate for
tif1cations along the Isthmus he said
10 the general who was then the COM
mander-in- chief:
Are you defending the canal, or is
the canal defending you?"
Murray Badly Beaten.
When Kitchener returned to London
another commander -in-chief was sent
out to the East. This time it was Sir
Archibald Murray. Sir Archibald did
magnificent work in forcing the TURKS
back across the Sinai Desert and in
building up 9 system of military trans
port through the wilderness" but
/ when it came to smashing the Turks hs
was badly beaten in two battles at tho
gates to the ancient Philistihe city ot
GAIA. So London decided that another
change would have to be made in the
high command. This time the mar
selected for the Job was Bull" Allenby
The name Bull had been given Il
him back in the days when he gained
fame as dashing cavalry leader in this
Boer War. 1t was because of his huge
roaring voice, which went booming
across valleys and deserts. Incl.
| dentally, age has made that celebrated
voice a bit thin now, but Allenby- /;
still a magnificent specimen. The
| Bull" only roared when he was angry
But apparently that was often enough ir
those campaign days when the blister
ing Summer sun turned the Holy Lane
into a veritable inferno. When Allenby
reached the East, almost his first acj
/ was one that endeared him to every
| Tommy and every Anzac 1t was no
that he was deliberately playing fol
the favor of his men. His measure:
we're directed toward definite mill.
tary objective.
Under the previous administration
the drinking places of Egypt had beer
| closed to the soldiers. Allenby saic
that he would rather have a drunken
army than stale one. So he ordered
these places opened up again, with ths
result that he had neither stals