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COL. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA.
**HE HARDLY EATS."
In the course of his fascinating book "Lawrence and the Arabs, Mr. Robert Graves, one of the trosh individual of modern poets and an able critic, declares that he "has tried to give a picture of an exasperatingly complex person- ality," and certainly he has suc- ceeded in showing how complex & man Colonel T. E. Lawrence or Aircraftsman T. E. Shaw, as he should now be called-is. But whether he makes his subject more comprehensible than he was belora
BOKHARA AND THE COLONY'S FINANCES.
BOLSHEVIKS.
THE EMIR'S GREAT WEALTH"
STORY OF SOVIET INTRIGUE.
2.
STATEMENT FOR
SEPTEMBER.
MORE REVENUE THIS YEAR
THAN LAST YEAR.
an
Asacts. OVER
Was
The balance of Lieutenant-Gol. P. T. Etherton,
Consul-General liabilities formerly British
on August 31st and Political Resident in Turkce- | 84,973,195,65. By the end of Sep- tan, writes: A remarkable story, tember this balance had been ill unknown to the world at large, les creased to $4,781,328.00, the revenue for the month being 1,934,385.34 behind the announcement that the
expenditure of Emir of Bokhara has despatched against an envoy to Geva" with a full $1,428,053,97. statement to be laid before the
The revenue of the Colony for the League of Nations regarding the year up to the end of September tragic situation of his State under
Was $15,180,780, 78. K3 against Bolshevik Government.
$14,269,901.01 for the same period The Bokharap ruler, Saiyid Mirin the preceding year.
The expenditure up to the end Alam Khan, who is about 48, was
is open to doubt, Certainly, how.! a major-general in the old Russinot September was 313,885,552.29,
ever, one closes the book with a clear perception that Colonel Law rence is an extraordinary man. whose wonderful achievements"in the war in Arabia were the result not of a fuke but of a remarkable personality.
Mr. Graves gives various descrip- tions of Lawrence's appearance as seen by different types of people
army and and an aide-decamp to the Czar. He was a welcome figure at Petrograd in pre-war days, and ruled his people ou patriarchal but just lines
L
10
against $18,185,778.12 for the same period of 1925.
FOR YOU?
UNCLAIMED CORRESPON- DENCE, ETC.
AWAITING AT THE GENERAL POST OFFICE.
Bokhara, thailand of fair women| ARE THERE ANY LETTERS and beautifulenrpets, was the largest and richest native State in Bolsheviks Turkestan, until the descended upon it in August 1990 I knew that the young Bokharan Here are a few first impres Party organised and financed by sions of Lawrence difficult to re-
the Bolsheviks was preparing to concile: "That commonplace hand over the State to the latter, looking little man!" (a poet), although the Soviet did not come Face and figure of a Circaasan in openly at this stage, as such, dancing-girl(a> American action would have given their claim
"A littleas journalist lecturer)
emancipators of the East man with a red face like a but-entirely false aspect. They there- A General Post Office notification cher" (Royal Tank Corps). fare arranged for the Young Bok-of Saturday's date gives the follow-
Face like a cheap writing-pad; haran party to deliver the opening ing particulars regarding unclaim n proper swede-looking (ie.,hlow, and then joined in on a pre-ed correspondence, etc. awaiting at Lumpkin) chap (Royal Air arranged request being made by the G.P.O. Force). A comical little x the revolutionaries for aid against (Royal Tank Corps). "A young the tyrannical Emir. What was mar of considerable physical the motivo? beauty: it is the sober truth that
Jewels Without Equal. I have not seen such burnished gold hair before or since, nor The Emir of Bokhara was one of such intensely blue eyes! (a the richest men in Asia, and his visitor at Carchemish). "A collection of jewels and precious very quiet, sedate manner, a fire stones was probably without an head but insignificant body" (aequat in the world. His wealth major of the Camel Corps).
Eats Seldom-And Alone. He is apparently a man of very eccentric habits. For example:
He avoids eating with other people. Regular mealtimes are not to his liking. He hates wait ing more than two minutes for a meal ar spending more than five minutes on a meat. That is why he lives mainly on bread and butter. And he likes water bet ter than any other drink. It is his opinion that feeding is a very intimate performance and should be done in a small room behind locked doors. He eats, when he does eat, which is seldom in a casual abstracted way. He came to visit me one breakfast-time on his racing motor-bicycle: he had como about 200 miles ie.five hours. He would eat no break- fast. I asked later what the food was like in the camp. I seldom rat it: it's good enough. I am now a storeman in the quarter master's stores, so I don't need much."
When did you last have a meal?" I asked. "On
Since when ap Wednesday.' parently he had some chocolate, | an orange, and cup of tea. This was Saturday.
Also, as might be expected, he is no respecter of conventions:
the
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totalled approximately thirty-five Lyaan, Mrs. H. Linde, Vander. million pounds sterling in gold and (Salvation Army), Maurice Little- silver coins and ingots, apart from boy, Mr. and Mrs. R. Lang, Colvin the jewellery. He had already Lee, W. H. Muench, H. R. Meyer, offered to confide it to our Care Mrs M. Moffatt, Mrs. Helen Duf realising that the Bolsheviks were Cochrane Nicholson, A. F. Oliver, after it and would stick at nothing A Petroff, M. M. Rames, R. to secure such a prize for the Sdraffa, W. Shakespeare, Miss E. advancement of their campaign for Stieglitz, Charles Trimm. R. Thom- world revoluticur. Moreover, he 300, Mr. B. E. A. Van, E. G. Ved, offered his State to us to be in- W. O. Watson, E. P. Williams. corporated unconditionally within. Unpaid Correspondence... the Empire.
For several practical reasons we were unable to do as he wished, but the offer was .. remarkable testimony to, British probity and proved how higa qur credit stood even in the remote heart of Asia. The sequel is that the Balshe vika hastanheir descent upon Bokhara and Bagged the loot they
were after.
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The treasure was kept in the vaults of the palice at Bokhara, this inner or royal city being known na the Ark. The gates were opened at daylight and closed at sundown, and huge door-keepers, reminiscent of those in the Arabian Nights, kept watch during the hours of darkness. The Emir was me
Unclaimed Radio Telegrams." thodical man, and the treasury" was" Widgeon, Portland Ore; Yong- under his personal supervision, as wosang, as. Sunning; Fookonguen, well guarded as a jeweller's strong-Amoy Oneba. Empress of Asia;
room.
Bolshevik Bribery..
Miss Leung Shit Ying.
Wingshing, Batavia; Anchoaylie, Balikpapan Pangsingtac, Kwong- Lawrence, shortly after
When the Bolsheviks descended chewan Kanangiako, Saigon war ended, was invited to attend in the night, bribery on a large Truster; Seattle, Wash.; Tanglong, the reception after a society wed scale had done its work and the Bangkok; Wapacut, Bangkok; ding. He went (a man he liked attack was a surprise. The Emir Pengloongchiang, Bangkok; Hon- was being married) in company
was warned in the nick of time, our, Medan; Honour, Batavia; with a young diplomatic attaché and he was actually passing the Linklock, Chicago; Yarrow, Mani who was much impressed by the main gateway disguised as ala; Tanglong, Bangkok; Allan, occasion.. "What name, gentle carter when the vanguard of the Chief Icemen, President Pierce, zuen asked the funkey at the Bolshevik levies rushed in. The San Francisco; Kwickeuk, Lake- door. Lawrence saw his comReds were nabisted by an aeroplane, woorth Fla.; Yatainoda, Cheribon; Padung Sumatra ; panion pulling himself together which terrified the people, for the Winguen, for an impressive entrance and vast majority had never even heard Chungpon Utopiad, Jackville Flo; the spirit of mischief overcame of ench a thing.
Namnb, Semarang; Namsinb, him. Mesara. Lenin and Trot
Semarang. sky." he said quickly. And **Mr. Lening Mr. Trotsky the flunkey bawled out mechanically to the scandalised assembly which, indeed, included royalty, He remains an enigma to every The Bolsheviks deported two of body because no one really knows the Bokharan Emir's sons
An important development is ex- more than one tiny side of his Moscow," where they are being character. "To each friend he re-educated," and more graduates pected in Macao in connection with veals in fact some part of himself, from the propaganda school at the new port, namely the extensiou but only a part. "
He has no Tashkent in Turkestan, have recent- of the workshops in the Macao intimates to whom the whole might ly gone forth to spread the new Naval Dockyard and their prob- be shown."
gospel of Bolshevism, among the able removal to the new port.
A number of slipways and a dry- Wangle In The Olpher Book.tribes and races between Bokhara A curious story is told of his and the, Indige rentier. Special dock will be made in the recent re- dealing with the late Lord Curzan. attention is to be paid to India as clamations of Maca
counter-stroke to the failure of After the war he was sent by the Soviet designs in the Yangtze Government to negotiate with the Valley, Araba:
Lawrence sent & cipher cable to Lord Curzon, the Foraign Minister. Can do nothing with Hussein. Are you fed up
shall I
CLITY on with Abdulla?" Curzon, who was a stickler for the diplomatic phras ing of official despatches, asked
•hda secretary:
Pray, what
or
"
does this term fed up eignity? The secretary, who had a sense of humour, replied, I believe, my lord, that it da equivalent to dizgruntled. "Ah," said Curzon, I supposed that in a term in use among the middle classes." When carry on " had also been explained, Curzon gave consent to the Abdulla, negotia tions, and Lawrence carried them on. Meanwhile the secretary,* & friend, had told him in a private letter of the "fed-up "episode. So Lawrence, having successfully concluded his negotiations with Abdulla, again tabled to Curzon in cipher : Have wangled things with Abdulla. Details
(Continued on next Oclumn.)
After apprising me of the crash, the Ear made his way into Afghanistan, and is at present living just outside Kabul, the Afghan ruler having placed a house as his disposal.
to
follow by letter. Note, the neces sary verb 'wangle' is absent from the diplomatic cipher. I submit that a letter group be allotted to it to save spelling it each time,' The word is now in the cipher book..
Future Flans, Calonci Lawrence's future plane are summarised by Mr. Graves as follows:
His future plane are simply to the stay out full time in Royal Air Force, and afterwards to settle down quietly in some room in Landon," the only, pos sible place to live in permanent- ly," with a country cottage mome where for his occasional retreat, and a pair of mechanically, driven wheels to tie the two bod- rooms together. But whether he will succeed in settling down quietly is another question. Mr. Winston Churchill's short sum- mary of Lawrence is a very. penetrating one: "A rare beast; will not breed in captivity.?
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