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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



Photograph from C. W. Whitehair 



A CAMEL RACK, ONE OE THE EVENTS OE A Y. M. C. A. ATHLETIC MEET ARRANGED EOR 

 THE ENTERTAINMENT OE THE BRITISH TOMMIES WEIO CAPTURED JERUSALEM 



That ostentatious entry twenty years 

 ago was looked upon at the time as the 

 action of an egotistical monarch, but now 

 we have come to realize that it was part 

 of a plan to win the Moslem world to 

 Germany. This breach in the wall made 

 possible the entry of carriages into the 

 town, and these have taken away some 

 of the charm of the Holy City ; but the 

 vehicles can penetrate only a few hun- 

 dred feet, as the streets are exceedingly 

 narrow. 



However, the world can be truly thank- 

 ful that henceforth no such desecration 

 of the sacred city will take place. The 

 British, I understand, are planning to re- 

 pair the breach in the wall, thus restoring 

 all the traditional simplicity of the ancient 

 city. 



KAISERISM ON THE MOUNT OE OLIVES 



The Kaiser caused to be erected on the 

 beautiful Mount of Olives, overlooking 

 Jerusalem and all the surrounding coun- 

 try, a great stone building altogether out 

 of keeping with the ancient architecture 

 of the city. They called it the Kaiserin 

 Augusta Victoria Hospice, which even 

 then was spoken of as looking more like 

 a fortress than a hospice. 



It is a tremendous building, supposed 

 to be for the use of German pilgrims, but 

 it was afterward discovered that it con- 



tained a powerful wireless outfit, which, 

 I presume the exponents of German 

 Kultur would explain, was a real aid to 

 the German pilgrims' prayers and medi- 

 tations. 



Later, it was claimed that the founda- 

 tions of the walls were beginning to give 

 way, thus affording an excuse for build- 

 ing great concrete bases to hold them in 

 place. These bases had a strange re- 

 semblance to the ordinary German gun 

 emplacements — a little more German 

 Kultur ! 



Today, standing at all gates and before 

 all the places sacred to Christianity and 

 Judaism, are British Tommies, protecting 

 them against desecration and spoliation 

 at the hand of war. British Indians, be- 

 ing Mohammedans, guard the Moham- 

 medan sacred places. 



Since the capture of the city not a 

 single building has been torn down or 

 damaged, and no changes of any kind are 

 permitted without the sanction of the 

 military authorities. Every single stone 

 is being guarded, so that the city may be 

 preserved unmarred by modern hands. 



Upon his entry, General Allenby at 

 once announced to the inhabitants that 

 they would receive just treatment, that 

 no preference was to be shown, and that 

 the people were to carry on their business 

 as they would in times of peace. 



