Great Britain and France, on December 23rd, agreed upon a
frontier between the mandate-territory of Syria gn the one hand and the mandate-territories of Palestine and. Mesopotamia on the other. Northern Palestine will extend on the asset to the " Ladder of Tyre," north of Artie, and will include Sated and the Jewish colonies on the Upper Jordan and the western shores of the Sea of Galilee. East of the Jordan the Palestine frontier runs south of the Yarmukriver and of Dams, the railway junction on the Damascus-Hedjaz line. The Haman is left to Syria. The boundary, crossing the Syrian desert, cuts the. Euphrates at Abu Kemal, to which our outposts were withdrawn last year, and thence runs northward to the Tigris, some eighty miles above Mosul. Sinjar, the site of the famous Roman fortress of Singers, is assigned to Mesopotamia. We have no need to envy our French allies the task• of preserving order to the west of this imaginary desert frontier, which the nomads will disregard. But the French, who have tamed the Tuareg In the Sahara, are quite capable of persuading the Shammar of the Syrian desert that commerce pays better than brigandage. ,
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