Evening star., 1935-05-20
COL.T.E.LAWRENCE
DIES OF INJURIES
"Uncrowned King of Arabia"
to Be Buried in Simple
Ceremony Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WOOL, Dorsetshire. England. May
20.-Messages from many lands
today expressing sorrow at the death
of the colorful Lawrence of Arabia. "
Despite his acclaim throughout the
empire, the funeral of Col Thomas
E. Lawrence, who emerged from
hazardous wartime adventures, only
to be fatally injured in a cycling
accident, will be extremely simple, in
keeping with his wish.
1t will take place tomorrow in the
village church at Moreton, near the
cottage where Lawrence sought seclu-
sion under his adopted name. T. E.
Shaw.
Refused Decorations.
So anxious was Lawrence in life to
avoid all acclaim that he refused the
decorations which France and Great
Britain desired to confer on him for
his achievements in Arabia. He en-
listed as private in the Royal Air
Force after the World War under his
assumed name. and when his identity
was discovered requested transfer to
the tank corps.
Only few friends, government rep
resentatives and members of the fam
lily will attend the rites. Burial will
be beside the graves of Mr.. and Mrs.
Knowles, the parents of his man
servant and friend, Pat Knowles.
The funeral arrangements ban
flowers and official mourning. 1t may
be that there will not even be mill
tary honors for the man credited with
assuring almost singled-handedly the
success Of Great Britain's Near East
ern campaign in the World War.
Eulogized by Press.
The press heaped eulogies on the
"uncrowned king Of Arabia" as a
genius and scholar who rated with
Gen. Gordon, the hero of Khartum.
The vague memory of this un-
crowned king will endure as one WON
names of men who seemed at the
time so much more important lie
buried forever in the dust of OBJ
livion." said the News Chronicle.
Viscount Allenby, Lawrence's COM
manding officer in Palestine. ssid he
gave his aide a free hand in Arabia
and that Lawrence delivered the
goods for Great Britain.
winston Churchill said that with
Lawrence's death I'VE have lost one
of the greatest beings of our time. "
rol of
g am. Eastern standard time) yes
terday after every medical resource
had failed to revive him from the
coma in which he had lain since his
skull was fractured in the cycle
accident a week ago.
If Lawrence had lived his brain
would have been irreparably dam
aged, the brother disclosed when he
left the hospital after the night
long vigil.
1T would have been a tragedy if
he had recovered" he added.
Legendary Hero.
1t fell to the lot of Col. Lawrence
to become a legendary hero while
he yet lived.
Strange mixture of fighter and
scholar, poet and soldier, Lawrence
of Arabia" set the seal of his fam
ing personality indelibly upon the
history of Turkey and Arabia in his
passionate and nearly legendary part
in the revolt of the Arabs against
Turkey.
Thrown into the maelstrom of the
World War as an obscure figure in the
war ministry, he emerged master
strategist, a driver of generals, and
a remaker of the map of the world
by his deeds over the sun-burned sands
of Arabia.
Lawrence gained his first intimate
of Arabia In the years just
before the war as an oxford student.
He toured Syria on foot after gradua-
ton, learned colloquial Arabian dia-
lects, pursued his search for archeolog-
ical knowledge. and in 1911 accom-
panied D. G. Hogarth on an expedi-
ton to Jerablus, on the Euphrates.
Dispatched to Egypt.
Lawrence, below standard height,
on the outbreak of the war was shunt-
ed into post in the geographical Sec
ton of the war Office, and was sent
to Egypt by Kitchener soon after Tur-
KEYS entrance into the war.
In the great game Of checkmat-
ing German-commanded Turkish
and maintaining q Turkish
front, Lawrence moved to the fore
through his knowledge Of the country
and the peoples. Impatient with the
cumbersome operations OF offcialdom,
Lawrence took matters into his own
hands and went into the desert to see
what he could do.
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