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"PU have been tried by இரு Rebel Court Martial on a charge of refusing aid to the You have been round- gulity and sentenced to death. Prepare your will, pay your debta and settle your affairs. For you will be executed even if you go to Heaven för shelter."- * President of the Rebel Military Court, Northern Division.... of Palestine."
Amxed to #.doorway, deposited in a motòr-cár 'or attached to a stone and flung through a window, alips of paper bearing this laconic *sentence," or another like it, has › turned cold the blood of hundreds
of Palestine Arabs,"
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Some have avoided thè đecree by escaping abroad. 'Others 'have averted it by “retracting" and prof- fering generously the aid they formerly refused. Most who stood their ground have sooner or later been assassinated.
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the charmings Cand peaceful intą,vläge of Karnacl, nestling among the historic mountains of Lebanon, in the French-man- dated territory of the Lebanon Ne- public, is the mainspring of the Arab Terrot.
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Here, surrounded only by the members of his family and a few of his closest henchmen, lives Kaj Amin el-Husseini, ex-Mufti Jerusalem and ex-President of the Supreme Moslem Council of Pales- tine, who has organised, inspired and directed the Arab Terror from Its Arst day.
Whon ho fled from Jerusalem last October, evading the night and day guard of scores of detectives armed with a warrant for his arrest, the Lebanese Government gave him refuge on condition that he conned his political activities,
· To the casual obsorver ho is ob- serving that condition. For he lives in apparent isolation in a re- foto mountain village.
Fow visitors invade his privacy just a handful of intimate rela- tives and friends, an occasional clerical colleague, and his barber,
"But they sufice to bridge the chaams that flo between Karnacl and Damascus, in Byria, where tho Alat is located that guides the Terror,
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INGE the Terror first in- vaded the Holy Land, "two ́- and - à - half years ago, 83 Britons, 250 Jews, and 640 Arabs have been killed. These are official figures.
Among the Arabs, at least, many more hundreds of victims have been claimed. This takes no reck-
"The little red-bearded, `blus-eyed man' "behind it al
oning of the thousands of wounded and the many hundreds of thou sands of pounds of direct damage to property.
And most of the lives have been lost in the ten months since Haj Amin found refuge in the kindly land of the Lebanon,
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THE · Committee for the Defence of the Arabs of Palestine, which meets in the Salhiye quarter of Damascus, Is the facade behind which the
Terror is organised.
Its members are Syrians and the Junta of Palestine Arab leaders who fled when the Palestins Gov- ernment decided to arrest them.
Groups working under the direc- tion of the main Committee orga- nise the recruitment of mercen- arles, and transport of arms to Palestine, dispatch emissaries fer fund-raising and
propaganda abroad, publish literature and re- lease regular telegrams and bulls- tins to the Press in the Arabic-. speaking countries,
They print the now-ahcets that koop each terrorist gang in Pales- tine informed of the "victories" of the other gangs.
But no step of importance is taken by any of these groups with-
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out the consent of the little red- bearded, blue-oyed man in Kar- nael.i.
Because of the heavy losses in- ficted by the forces of the Crown on the terrorists in Palestine, mer- cenarles are not as ready to enlist as they were a year or two ago.
But in the remote hill districts or Byria and Iraq, the deserts of Syria, Saudia Arabla and Trans- jordan, where news travels slowly. roving recruiting agents still and Arabs, Kurds, Circassians. Bedouins, ready to join the glamor- ously-pictured war against the British and the Jews.
Their pay ranges from £3 to £0 monthly. Previous experience of guerrilla warfare command. higher pay-£10 and even £15.
Special bonuses for each murder committed hold out further pros- pects: £8 for a casual Jew, and as much as £500 for the head of any one of the three of the ex-Mufti'a particular Arab political enemies. Ragheb Bey Nashushibi, Suleiman Effendi Toukan, and Sheikh Hus sam Jarallah.
SATURDAY,
ments of heavier arms. Through the wide-open door of the deserts or along tortuous fron- tler mountain paths smaller consignments are brought in. From Byria they are sent on to Palestiné by any of the score of methods known to amugglers throughout the world.
Who are the Arab terrorists of Falestine? About 400 of them, the "permanents," consist of Pales- Linian enthusiasts fighting from political, nationalist or religious motives, ex-convicts, and escaped criminals.
Behind the permanent force of terrorists are nearly 3,000 part time followers, who are called up for varying periods and then re- turn to their, peace-time occupa- tions. Some are paid. Others are satisfied with possession of a rifle. In the interim of terrorist activi- tics, they serve as suppliers of food
OCTOBER 16, 1938.
IT WAS AGONY TO STOOP
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Backache Made Him Feel An Old Man at 31
This man of 31 was prematurely aged by kidney trouble, when he should have been enjoying the best years of his life. Here he tells how Kruschen gave him buck his health, after months of pain:-
"I was in hospital for ten weeks, owing to kidney trouble, When I was discharged I felt like an old man, although I am only 31. If I stooped to do anything it was Igony to straighten up again. Soverai people| advised
mo to try Kruschen Salts. I
found tried them and they gave me rellet from paln and I felt beiter in every way. I cycle 28 miles a day to and from work, and ahali keep up the daily dose of Kruschen because I can now do the journey to and from work and a night's work, and not feel any the worse for IL”—S,V.C.
Unless the kidneys function pro- perly, certain acid wastes, instead of being expelled, are allowed to pollute tho blood-stream and produce backache, troublesome symptoms: rheumatism, and excessive fatigue. Kruschen Salts is one of the Ariest diuretics or kidney aperients avail- hble for assisting the kidneys excrete acid impurities.
to the gangs, but above all as HAVE YOU
spies.
And while informing about acts of "disloyalty." they frequently take the opportunity of informing against personal enemies with whom they have old scores to settle.
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O less than £10,000 is to required monthly maintain the Terror. The first £80,000 consisted of funds collected by Haj Amin throughout the Moslem world to effect repairs that weren't needed to the great Mosque of Omar,
Further large sums came from the revenues of the Wakf (Moslem Endowment Trust Fund) of whleti Haj Amin, as President of the Moslem Council, was almost sole controller. But that was insufl- clent. So he obtained about £5,000
a month from Italian sources.
Early this year the Italian purse began to draw in. So now the Nazis have begun to come to his assistance.
From Iraq, and to a lesser ex- and tent. Syria. Egypt, India America, periodic sums are brought In by propagandists. But steadiest source of all has been robbery and xtortion at the point of the gun. *he Holy Land knew this system in the days of Abraham.
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OR their "protection " and the "protection" of their property. wealthy Arab merchants, citrus planters, contractors, omnibus owners and others Day the
A prominent British official or a highly-placed Jew is worth £200, terrorists до much monthly.
Principal distributing centre for the arms and ammunition is Byria, On lonely parts of the Byrian coast freighters put in with conalen
When the Country Was on Fire
THE twenty-fourth anniversary of T the Great War passed practically unnoticed in London. Apart from the usual B.BN.C. activities on the wireless, the only outward and visible
By "AN OLD STAGER"
men going to a fight. The face and figure of one young fairhaired pri- vate with laughing_eyes still vivid in my memory. The Guards were marching at ease, und this led, his rille perched jauntily in reverse on his shoulder, turned to wave a fare- well hand to some girl in the crowd.
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ranging from a few pounds to scores of pounds.
To expiate their crime of working for the "enemy" Government, officials have also been placed on the paying-roll
Occasionally extortion from vil- lagers oversteps the mark and there is profound, if.secret resentment. Gang leaders, disguised itinerant teachers, policemen, preachers, then pay lightning good-will tours to the affected dia- trlets,
With tales of the prowess of the gangs they first fire the youth. clders, too, become
Then the
absorbed.
"For two-and-a-half yenra · we have been fighting the British Empire," they say, "and, far from being suppressed, we are in the ascendant. Victory will be ours. And then will come the reward for your sacrifices to the national <cause."
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Paris, Oct. 8.
M. Charles Soulie de Morant, well known as an author and novelist upon the Far East, has been pro- moted to the rank of Officer of the Legion of Honour,
Two other "China hands” were awarded the rank of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. They are M. Henri Metz, Chief Engineer of the French Concession in Tientsin, and M. Alfred Gouget, retired Assistant Commissioner of the French Poilee in Shanghai,
their shoulder, clerks, bricklayers, tramps, and navvies.
There were boys who tried to look like men and elderly men who tried to hold themselves like youngsters. That was in the days before the Oxford young gentlemen of the Union announced that epic resolve never in any clrcumstances to fight for King or country-and presum- ably not for Liberly either.
There was nothing wrong with the heart of Britain in August 1914. One must have seen that gallant re- cruiting rush to understand in what manner and spirit the manhood of
Kilchen this kingdom responded
er's rallying call. No symptoms of spiritual or physical decadence be trayed themselves in that crowded death. hour of glorious lie-and Not the youth only, but the middle- aged manhood of his country was on fire: From one Scots city about half the police force travelled south li a body to enlist in the Scots Guards.
We shall not witness such scenes the as those again. At least 80 Westminster
wise-neres tells We shall have conscription within 24 hours of the next alarm, if there over is one. It will be more systems- tic, less wasteful, but not quite to heart-lifting. Those 1014 volunteers were the finest warriors that ever marched head-up into battle.
sign was the simple laurel wreath on Most people pondered the news int the Scots Guards regimental colour anxious silence, thought-ridden and when they changed the Palace sen-grave-faced. Everybody realised we
vastly wondered then what fate had in tries. A small laurel crown round were up against something
War. We store for that laughing cavaller. I the top of a standard to commemorate different from the Boer
could make a fairly safe guess now. earthquake our the "biggest
our existing knew then it was to be no pienie.
For days an unending column of civilisation has ever known.
brand-new khakl passed through Next August overybody who took Pictures from Life
Hyde Park. There was one Horse any part in the Great War, including Across St. James's Park, from the Artillery battery which bivouacked
those who merely hold a watching direction of the German Embassy In the mid-day
meal by the band- brief, will be a quarter of a century Carlton House Terrace, came a faint stand under the trees. Its O.C. was older than they wore when the
echo of volces. It was a small crowd
young captain. The day „¿bugies 'sounded
n handsome the first Fall In. of German reservists, employed us was terrifically sweltering and hot, The only exceptions, and they number over a million of our own race, are ing defiant Hochs for the Kaiser rings round his eyes.
Several times those who rest where, they fell in battle, of whom Laurence Butyon has is interesting to speculate what to drink feverishly.
the very heart of Britain's capital. he walked over to the water-waggon so finely sung that "they shall grow a similar demonstration by Britons had been making a night of it, bo- not old as we that are left grow old.”
Suleiman Effendi Toukan, who outside our Berlin Embassy that fore leaving Blighty, but he was still Can it really be 23 years ago? No midnight would have meant.
instructed the villages under his the mert RILA captain. Whee
influence in the Nablus district not doubt whether it seems so or not
restaurant At supper in a Soho
he gave the order to move off, some to help the terrorists, found his depends largely on what sort of that night the head waiter, a patrio of his reservist drivers mounted bt- simpression the events of 1914 made the Frenchman and ex-cuvairy N.C.Ofore the word of command.
food # toaster writhing in the on one's mind. Owing to the crowd-sang "The Marseillaise" as I never
ngony of death by swore gently to himself, passed a ed years that have supervened since heard it sung before, Everybody in hand across his brow, and
of eight Despite his box Doisoning. picked men, he retired one night to then, to those who were not actually
them do it again according t waitress wept Cocker.
find four empty bomb cases in his little French in the ranks it may seem more than the place stood up and joined in, but a quarter of a century ago. But to silently. Har sweetheart, to whom
Meanwhile, the chic little Park
room with a warning note in each: "Countermigng your order to the those who shared the meat adven she was about to be married, was Lane nursemaids were romancing turn, the biggest thing by for in any) a soldier of France, serving with the över battalions of stalwart Highland- villages, or your blood is on your of that lives, it apppears far less cavalry. A few nights later she was ers, tired out with marching, as they own headi ahan that. The Great War stands in deep mourning, and her sweet; lay recumbent in the roadway. We jout for them, against the background, heart had a Uhlan lance through him. had then no prevision of the Mons
of their lives, like a fiigh mountain Next day I
West lunched at
End epic or the linmortal glory of our wango viewed from distant lowlands, restaurant. Our walter was a young Old Swets.
thens it is an affair of yesteryeat. German: I asked him how it
Business people coming up to their At midnight on the fateful day that he had not been called up. With
daily office routine were startled to war was declared, for In those times Ineffable insolence in his Ve- see train after train pass thêm, that chivalrous formality was still replied that Germany would win the loaded wih sinister-looking guna, observed by the nations. I was stand war easily enough without him. He limbers, and other scente properties
outside the Cafo Monleo in was mistaken in both instances.
of the Great Drama about to be After Kitchener's appeal for fighting Piccadilly
Circus. The newsboys Exciting days and nights followed plat
played in Europe. A Fleet Street men, the official recruiting office was carse rimning with the special cdl that memorable August 4th, 1914. friend and 1, on our way to lunch pimply showed under. Marquees tions of the evening papers, and their I watched the Guards march away at the West End, recognised a tall had to be erected on
the Horse Parado-to swear in the eager mows "War declared!" There was
stepping stolidly along as Lord Kitchener, Wo saw him Scots Guards,
Queues
six and eight wight outbreak of West End hysteris. the farallar Thames Embankment as ring the bail at Lord Salisbury's St.
tip all the way along Piccadilly ladies drove round. In though going to relleve the usual James's house, and a few hours Inter
Walk and outside- the Proxis waving Union Jacks and Bank guard. They looked serious, read the news that he had been of mth were in those queue for frettir.if the beritage they Park Vale. They were freemen of Britaint near Victoria Buation:
who fought and endured, ant won Tench triendours. Some of the as
as men, who entertained no illusións. made Mbister for Wer. Next came the Irish Guards, some-The Recruiting. ftuah "young bloods threw up their, hate
what younger on the average than
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So he countermanded the order and left on " holiday” for Turkey.
Can the simple Arab peasantry. be blamed for bellaring, thât știe terrorists will be the victors?
raucous voices shouted the heavy into the mists of history. First the figure in morning, dress, und bowler cr
and chanted "Rule Britannis."
It is amusing now to recall the mortifying pangs with which · ·men `past' military age-the over 35. watched this splenald recruiting parade, Little they realised then that before the Great Adventure was over they, too, would be in honest khaki, going over the top with the youngsters.
A tragle percentage of those elato 1914 reoruita arep now, under: ser- ried headstones in the war cemo- teries of France and more distant lands. I am certain, could we can- voas their knightly shades fo-day, we should hear of no regrets. These were not reckless gamblers with
City men id topberg, working men in won for his at such cost fing alneg Overalls market saleimen in tirup) boen, squandered, that is no fault of
But the demeanour of the crowd the Scots, and swinging along with Most unforgettable "of all were hata, dandica in. Savbe Now Buita, nr. theirs. We must thank the niggling 14. As a whole was eminently Bober, that rollicking stride proper, to Irish-those London . recruiting scenes, thans-with their bags, of tools over, little, põllțicians for that!
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