Sir Edmund Allenby, the victor of Palestine and. Syria, returned
home on Tuesday and was accorded both at Daver and in London the hearty public welcome which he deserved so well. His campaign, against the :Turkish and German forces was -conducted with a masterly skill that caused: most civilians to underrate its difficulties. Sir Edmund. Allenby-referred to' one of these difficulties when he said at Dover that he had had eleven or-twelve nationalities and at least three-religions repre- sented in his cosmopolitan army. The commander of such an army needed consummate tact to -succeed at all. Sir Edmund Allenby has shown not less ability as an administrator than as a, general.. To those who know anything of Syria it must have seemed-surprising,that for eight or nine months his provisional government aroused no complaints at alL
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