ARMAGEDDON.
[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPEC.LT0/1.1 SIR,—The entrance of the Ottoman Empire into the great European war has made it also an Asiatic one, and possibly a literal as well as a metaphorical Armageddon. For to safe- guard the Suez Canal and Egypt our correct plan of strategy should involve the occupation of Jaffa, Jerusalem, and Acre, and the cutting of the Bejjaz railway line. In this case it might well happen that a battle would be fought on the very site of Har-Megiddo or Armageddon. Turkey's folly is Great Britain's opportunity, and Bussorab, the chief em- porium of the trade of the Persian Gulf, is already in our hands. Syria and Mesopotamia were the gardens and the granaries of the ancient world, but they have become deserts under the rule of the Turk, in whose footsteps, according to the Arabic proverb, no grass ever grows. Under British rule the wilderness would once more blossom as the rose, and at the conclusion of the war we might gratify our Jewish subject. and the Zionists throughout the world by making over to them the land for the restoration of which they have wished and waited for two thousand years without ever losing faith in the promises made to them by their ancient prophets.-1
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