GERMANS IN THE HOLY LAND.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 546, 1 March 1913, Page 7

GERMANS IN THE HOLY LAND.

Tourists who visit the Holy Land note the progress 0 t its Germanisation. On the Road to Nazareth most of the inns are kept by Germans. Nearly all the streets of Jaffa have .the aspect of the Prussian village. The houses have rsd roofs and are surrounded by the little garden so dear to Gretchen. Traces of the Teuton are everywhere. The Syrian has been supplanted by the Berliner, who has migrated from ths banks of the Spree to the borders of the Jordan in order to make his fortune. German is spoken everywhere. The American Consul himself is a German. Souvenirs of the Kaiser abound everywhere. Here one shows a fountain that he erected to furnish water to the pilgrims dying of thirst; there is a road that he levelled to lighten the fatigue of the journey. Enthusiastic guides sho.v on the Mount of the Ascension, beside an imprint attributed to the Christ or to Mahomet, according to one's faith, a human foot, well marked in the rock, of which he will confidentially murmur in the ear of the tourist—"William 11. stepped there." In a hundred years, perhaps, this will solidify into the legend of William ll.—"Le Cri de Paris."