Tulsa Tribune · 5 January 1918

CP-1918-010

Palestine, Truly Home Of the Jews, Should Be Kept From Turks

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LONDON, Jan. 5.—A shining oasis in the desert of British unpreparedness for war was the fact—hitherto, I believe unpublished—that a few weeks before the war broke out a British survey was completed of the hitherto uninappd district between the Egyptian survey and the old Palestine Exploration Fund Survey of Palestine. The maps were finished but not printed.

The result is that in the present brilliant campaign Gen. Allenby has perfect maps of every wady and spring of the desert between Palestine and Egypt, while those in the hands of the Turko-German forces are relatively incomplete and inaccurate. In this work of Palestine exploration and survey Dr. Masterman of Jerusalem took a continuous and active part.

His knowledge of the country’s history, present condition, and of the amazing blend of races that inhabit Palestine in unsurpassed.

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• Palestine the Key To the Possesion of EuropeBirmingham Post HeraldBirmingham, Alabama30 December 1917CP-1917-008

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