Evening Star Newspaper, March 4, 1926, Page 38

EAR EAST TRANQUILLITY HANGS ON BRITISH - TURKISH PEACE 1 : Prestige, Not Bayonets, Is Secret of Christian Power, But With War in Mosul Whole Mohammedan World Would Probably Rise. BY JOHN L. BALDERSTON. 1 | ®pecial Correspondent of The Star and Nortb | Kmerican. Newspaper Al ary 1.—That hangs largely | war between | the conclusion areful study pt, Palestine | peace in the Near Ea on the prevention of Britain and Turkey ¥ have reached after of the situation in F and Syria. The power of France and Er out here rests on prestige, not bayonets. And prestige will cuf to keep the peace, unless Tu overturns the apple cart. Blood-curdling whispers are cu yent here in the bazaars of Damascus and in the Arah cafes of Cairo about an imminent rising of all the peoples of the bast against their Christian masters, t nglish and the French. It is natural that these tales should receive more credence in Syria than in pt. Not a quarter of Syria is in eeciive occupation by the French and many re- sponsible Syr ave neither rebels nor fanatics attach importance to such documents as are circulated by the “Central Committee Liberation of North Africa “Committee for the Liber These organizations their head centers in Cairo branches throughout the Moham- medan world. I have said that British and French wer out here rests primarily not| lipon bayonets but upon prestige There are not one-tenth enough treops to cope with the man®petty chiefs who talk revolt, were they at the same time. And so, there is less than no connecti tween French and Spanish jn Moroc British Mesopotamis the squabbles of the Fere, the moment guns i obscure town across the Jordan the sults of that fighting ave felt as well by the Spaniards on the Atlantic | as by the British on the Euphrates. In this sense the East is one, though syria.” ) off in an when the parlor revolutionists in Cairo | try to link up the anti-foreign activi tiee of the Indians or the Chinese with what happens in this part of the world they are talking nonsense And yet not quite nonsense. The xeal danger to Furopean rule on this eide of the Mediterranean lies not in| petty conflicts in Morocco or Syria nor demonstrations in Cairo, but the black cloud that hangs over the mountains north of Mosul. Let| ¢ defy the League of Nations send those four divisions | the frontier of Mesopotamia take Mosul in the Spring, and | fat will he in the fire indeed. British keep almost no white troops in Mesopotamia, as the French keep almost no white troops in Sy and | for the same reason. Public opinion t home will not stand either the ex pense involved or the thought that the lives of boys whom the Great War spared are endanzered Blow Would Rock Prestige. to do to the in Should the Turks try British at Mosul what they did three vears ago t ireeks at Smyrna, | should the F to defend the mountains by fail. then such A resoundi tish prest on the BEupharates must be felt in India. and the shock would cross the | plains of Asia tn the shores of the | Pacific. The peace of Asia and North ..fri ea hangs. I believe, on the prevention of war between Rritain and Turkey. Arab | ; s | Cairo French and British criticize each other's colonial administration out here with increasing acerbity. There is what a recent visitor called “an astonishing lack of co-operation be. tween the two mandatories” in Syri: and Palestine. And yet, whether they like it or not, British and French are in the me boat out here and must float or nk together. British officials and soldiers in Palestine and Egypt, when | they are not working, spend most of their time abusing the nch. *If only we had been in burden of their song, would have happened.” Personally re right. Bt right . they all admit, when pinned it, that rebel successes in mean the deuce (o pay in | while the French, Who | abuse the British for hoiding Mosul iind not giving it to the Turks~without fuss, admit. when pressed, that a successful Turkish attack on England means either the end of I'rench rule in Syria or a first-class war to hold the countr yria.” is the none of this Ilnur‘ Declared at Hand. yrion committee declares ¥ the liberation of Arabia from the foreig Znglish and Italis the Turkish and Chinese, and drive out the foreign nations which enslave us. Aid the Druse revolt. fra- ternize with the French soldiers in the Orient, most of whom are Mol ., and win them to our s Tangier on the Atlantic anghai cn the Pacifie, the Mo: to em | Abd-el-Krim | French column | done by the Druses, people will fall upon their oppress this document predicts. Another declamatory pronuncia mento from the neral committee’” in | remarks: “Death iz preferable the gn voke. Arabians will never sheath the sword until inde: pendent. The patience of Araby is ex hausted. The fire of revolution is| blazi ve men, help our | Riff brethern, get the Mohammedan | soldiers to desert the French What do these bravi nd what is the FATHER to THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ¢, THURSDAY, MARCH of an approaching Moslem movement throughout the East? I have tried to find out, principally in Cairo, where most of the members of these ‘‘com- mittees” sit on sidewalks drinking much coffee, and spill much blood—in conversation. Columns could be quoted of such incitements as those given above, and literature of this sort is passing over all the caravan routes from Persia to the coast of Morocco. Most responsible foreign officials, not only the English in comparatively placid Cairo but even the French here in war-torn Syria, ridicule talk of any concerted movement of the Arab peoples to regain their inde- pendence. Students and visionaries who try to organize the many races which speak Arabic face a hopeless task, for the inertia and immemorial hatreds of the Orient make anything like united action in a “holy war’” im- possible. That opinion seems well founded. Krim's Succes Broadcast. But it indisputable that when for years defeated the Spaniards and followed this up by at first taking much ground from the French, exaggerated rumors of his prowess circulated wherever Arabic is spoken. And so Abd-el-Kim in Mo- rocco encouraged Sultan Atrash and the Jebel Druse to fevolt last Sum- mer, and when Atrash and his brave fanatical warriors cut to pleces a near El Sueida this feat tingled the nerves of the whole Arabian Peninsula. Anything ap- proaching a concerted revolt in North Africa, Arabia and Asia Minor, if is | it came, must be ascribed to the influ- ence of the success of one movement | upon disaffected peoples elsewhere. This Syrian revolt. so far, is not very serious. It would not xist at ail if French finances and opinion would permit the dispatch of two or three fir lass white divisions to the French regular ari Nearly all the fighting against France has been who are always ready to fight anybody at the drop of the hat, and there has been no general Moslem rising. No more than five thousand Moslems are in arms against the French here. The Druses, by the way, are not Moslems. 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