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PALESTINE.
AS SEEN BY A FLIER.
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life. of the cities in which he dwells.
The Arab, is, he says, a WOD- derful chap, intelligent and worth working for when the blight of the Turk is off him, with a way of being comradely, a high sense of humour and a strict stern honour all his own
"Arabas" and "Bedouins" are words of a strange colour and an old, old sound; "Cherif" and "bernous" are new entirely to a
There was a famous Arab lot of us; and about "Mecca" and chieftain," he said. "a pictures- "Palestine ** and Nazareth."que
old bird, who had "Mesopotamia," Jerusalern. had twenty-eight wives and Damascus," there is a rich and been wounded thirteen times and old-gold glamour which un-and had killed seventy-five men suits them utterly for casual, in single combat. He had been in current use. They are brocaded sorts of raids all over Arabia and too heavily for wearing every day. Syria. The Sherif of Mecca, most So it is strange, even after all direct descendant from Moham- our War-news training, to med, gave a dinner in honour of hear them falling rapidly and the amalgamation of all the tribes
matter-of-factly from the lips of from Arabia to southern Syria
a boy in the light blue uniform of when the heads of the tribes the British Royal Air Forces, a came to swear their fealty. And small and extremely young-look-after this old bird had eaten two ing pilot who, looks lost and courses he left the dinner, and alienated when sunk in the deep the sound of hammering on stone cushions of a chair in the lounge could be heard outside. Then he of the Hotel Vanderbilt. This is came in and mumbled, 'Pray,
1919.
As for the Turk, ha -said: "Everywhere they go becomes a desert. But Mesopotamia and Syria, now that they are irrigat- ied, will be as rich as Egypt, with three crops a year." The country will go back to what it was before the blight of the Turks came on it."
Captain Bott tells enthusiastic ally of the work of the Army under Col. T. E. Lawrence, a young Oxford don, who started out as a lieutenant, who pat on the Bedonin dress and went to the Cherifof Mecca, and with the
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"While Gen. Allenby was hav- ing the scrap in Palestine proper," Captain Bott said. "Lawrence and the Arabe were tearing up the German railroads with their their bare hands. And he led then up the long track of the desert to Deras, a railmad june- tion. where they round up_the Fourth Turkish Army. When I was taken to be interrogated by the Germans in Nazareth, one of them said to me These Arabs are giving up the fight with you. We have a letter from the Cherif saying there is no use, that-we are the stronger, and they have given up. I thought, of course, it was a damn lie. But when another British officer told me that he had been told the same by the head of the Fourth Turkish Army, I began to believe it. Not untill I got back to London did I see Lawrence, and I asked him what- ever that story was and whether it was true and he said, 'I wrote those letters myself, so that the Turks would lay off us. And it worked."
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Captain Bott's own adventures were many and various. He got to Palestine just afterthe fall of Jerusalem, landing at Jaffa, having first flown around the Sphinx and the Pyramids and circled over the desert as far as the Temples of the Kings at Karnat His joy was to over to Nazareth and
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them on the stone, and he could
But one who flies over a coun-eat no more of dinner. But later try-even such a rocky, difficult they got him some from country as Palestine and so set Egyptian dentist.
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apart by tradition-and sees it "They are fond of the British." spread below quite openly on he said. "An Englishman can sunny morning and moonlit travel in any part of Arabia and nights, set up a kind of intimacy not be molested, except, perhaps, with it. Nazareth from above may by the Bedouins who would kill seem as natural as London or a man for an old shirt or his Chicago. **It is a wonderful boots. The Bedouin is different country to fly over," said Captain from the other Arabs. He Bott, but the wonder for him wanders over his sand and lives, comes not from the brocade and no one knows how. He has do old-gold tradition, but from the conception of numbers above ten actual beauty of the land. from and knows nothing about time the bright and subtly Woven except by the sun.
He is brave colours of that strange creature and lawless, and he is often called the "Arab, and the daily starving." "
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For awhile he was confined in the Austrian hospital at Tul- Keran south of Damascus, fifteen
miles from the sea. When be The tried to escape in a little boat he was brought back and put into a slimy dungeon in Nazareth under the fort, and, after another frus- trated attempt at getting away, Asia Minor, where he had a to a mud village, in the heart of loaf of bread and three eggs a day. But through the gullibility of Turkish doctor who thought the fits that Bott threw were real, be was sent to Constantinople, where, with the aid of a woman spy, a German passport, and the bridge across the Bosphorus into the Turkish city of Stamboul, be and an Australian captain finally escaped. For three weeks they masqueraded there in Stamboul. Bott as a German, the Australian as a dirty old Arab and another British officer as a young Earo- pean girl.
The story of all this, and of how they all got away on a Russian tramp steamship in a little room which had six inches of bilge water in it. landed at Olesse, and finally at the British Mission at Sofia, will make very good listening in Capt.
Fott's lectures, along with the story of the Allenby campaign and thei general subject of flyingin Pales tine. His first lecture in New York, was illustrated by pic- tares he took during his flights. For, after getting well, he went back to Syria again and few over Damascus; and the land which stretched below him there was, he says, the most beautiful he has ever flown across, with the rivers and the desert and the hills.
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