FROM SCHOLAR TO GUERILLA LEADER
In the operations in Palestine invaluable aid was given by the Arab forces ■of. tho King of Hejaz, which' swooped upon Dcraa, in the desert east of the Lake of Galilee, and destroyed the rail- ' ways radiating from that junction to Damascus, Palestine, and Medina. It is piquant to learn from the "Echo do Paris" that the organiser of this desert cavalry, which has inflicted heavy losses on the Turks for many months jjast, is a young archaeologist of the British Museum staff, Colonel Lawrence. Somehow, whenever Great Britain needs a man to perform a difficult and delicate task of (his kind among strange peoples, tho man appears. Colonel Lawrence, according to . the "Pall Mall Gazette," was the officer who arranged the exchange of wounded after the fall of Kill, when he went blindfolded into the Turkish lines. It is also said that the Turks, well nwaro of his feat of organisation among the Arabs, had put a price upon Ids head.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 87, 7 January 1919, Page 8
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167FROM SCHOLAR TO GUERILLA LEADER Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 87, 7 January 1919, Page 8
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