"LITTLE LAWRENCE"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 85, 4 January 1919, Page 9

"LITTLE LAWRENCE"

Cf'-ifERQ. , Ol\ THE;-'.PALESTINE AVAR; , .... .. .(By. One\Wiip'.Kiio\vs,Hini.) -' : . . :■• "In.connection .γ-ith.General Allenby'a •triumph'," wrote iU. Marcel HutHicently, ."the name ofrfolonelT. .E.'Eavr* becbfue ;legendary-." . -And -he w,bnt on- :to';..'r'e,lato how- this youthful British/ ofßce'r.,.had,.' been., -the- .medium -of getting the 'Desert.Arabs to help.-.in- Jtio "small ■'mikeiu'ii tbwji'rds-'the uindoinsj-.-of the. TujE ,'Colfln'ellLawrence", it further appears'; "carried, 'hie.'life"..ih'-liis hnnds during his..exploits." ;.Tho. Turke.-'put a high price on hid"ieail;. ■'~. ''.:...-. -,- '--i; ■ Beforeihe iip-'iit tlie •'varsity and. .stii!.lj".iiigVarchneploi{y..on:_the spot;'"fn Takfjtjne, 'pflo :bf'his-:sw.or'n.''eom-paiiibns'in h.i.f.Cuest'.'for knowledge being ■a, yoiing -GcHiiaii :\^io.'carried .*pn: precisely siiriilarSyorkjfor: the.crieniy.tq.thnt. which.."Little.;Lawrence" ■ did for ■ii's— '■whic'h'.'Tirort lirbndly.cpnsistci iii.making' life r qui(e ■•unliearaWe'-'fof th'e,Tiirk .along ■irgoodly slvetch df L .tHe .vast'Aleppo-Me-dina railway."' ■■■■-'■' '" ' --. '; '.'■■:■.-; Lawrence, at the head of his Bedouins, 'cut thie'line 'ond' blew■ it lijvtrains'.aijd »11, repeatedly during important, phases at the campaign. '' ~ .' :'..,,. A perfect Arabic scholar,'.'he-tlsed. ; to. make himself, up.'as a Bedouin,' complete to the-tanned etin/and trotoff into, the '■desert :on his' camel! And./what .this daredevil young Englishman then'proceeded' to accomplish at the head of-his-faithful ■.followers alriiosf: surpasses' hunbn, Relief. Once lie descended'on the.'iiiilway-nehr Maan, blew up the line for half., a mile, ■ also , 'two' aiUnWnih'on' trairis; ! -Blled' 60: Turks, and took 200 prisoners, including, staff, offlcoi'B' coming up-on lbaVe'" frpm' ; Medina. * _, ?".••; v. \ : VvEor.-'fe above "exploit he was-given'the I tip for the V.C.: . .but missing tli6-"6itprerae-honour' l as"there' : wns no white witness of .what he!, had • dono. Later aeroplanes 'were of 'great' r'feiistance to -."Little Lawrence" iiu' his ■ -"etunts," and it may safely-be: saul.that he did :more to win over and- keep the •support-.of the Arabs'of .'the , Hejaz and i neighljouring tribes than rfny .other single . ; m'anv-, r. :. <~i :;■■:■■; ••- -v ■■:'.•■■ . , 1 On his treks into the wild;- "Little : -Lawrence"; lived absolutely the.life Of the : ,Bedpuiii. ; , He hatea donning khaki;-and: ! last' jcaivliad ..not even taken trouble- -■ .to:-buy.'.his:t,rjbbqns''or': major's crown.' ; He....was .-..then ".slightly....wounded -in the' , hand,-.,an(l had just .come'out of ;! » con-, i feronce-.whe.reT ho.-.-hud >been : tilling' the! :■ .bj)?-w,igs .waptlydl. about', tiling. ■;. •' j ■ --.-i'jin.e; was when:.' ? Little:Lawrence'' was ■ not granted; such ~cartu blanche-at'-the ■ . .conference')table—when tho:'--spectacle"Of , a temporary ijunior- Hlicer■laying':-down l ; tho lnw to eeninr.oflicers.irho liaddnbbled ' all their lives in the work oil hand made certains people hold'up-their hands in ; liotroi;,: But those .days ftre ovcr.i ; r"Daily : Hull." ~;,:■•. -:■.,•-; ■ ...-..,.:'; '