A Visit to Jerusalem
\VITHIN an hour of our arrival we were entering the old Jerusalem-the walled-in city of Biblical times, by way of the Jaffa gate. It was then I first felt that tingling feeling up the back of my spine, and it kept tingling for quite a long time too. Right next to the Jaffa gate is the gap in the wall which
was made Dy the iurks for the German Kaiser to pass through and is the place where General Allenby entered in the last war. Slightly further to the right is the Tower of David — its front wall is part of the old city wall and the remaining three walls form it into a square and when inside it reminds you very much of those forts which you see in
some of these Foreign Legion films. From here we went into the inner part of the old city, and I felt myself drifting, back, back, further into bygone days. Next we went down to the Wailing Wall where the Jews frequently go to pray. Wandering around, we came across members of the Palestinian Police-a fine body of men, divided up on a " fifty-fifty " basis, half Arabs and half Jews, with a smattering of English in,each branch. Their barracks are to be seen here, there and everywhere. We next tried to get into the Mosque of Omar, but were too late. Following this we did our best to follow the trail of the Cross, or what is more generally known as the Via Dolorosa. After a lot of wandering we came out of the old city at the Damascus gate and visited the Garden of Gethsemane.-("Just Mail Days,’ by Major F. H. Lampen, 2Y A, December 11.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 5
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290A Visit to Jerusalem New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 130, 19 December 1941, Page 5
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