Invaluable aid was given us once more by the Arab
forces of the King of the Hedjaz, which swooped upon Deraa, in the desert east of the Lake of Galilee, and destroyed the railways radiating from that junction to Damascus, Palestine, and Medina. Further south these Arabs attacked and captured Mann, the chief Turkish port on the Medina Railway. It is piquant to learn from the Echo de Paris that the organizer of this desert cavalry, which has inflicted heavy losses on the Turks for many months past, is a young English archaeologist of the British Museum staff, Colonel Lawrence. Some- how, whenever Great Britain needs a man to perform a difficult and delicate task of this kind among strange peoples, the man appears. The scholar turned guerrilla leader does not surprise us in the least. Colonel Lawrence, according to the Pall Mall Gazelle, was the officer who arranged the exchange of wounded after the fall of Kut, when he went blindfolded into the Turkish lines. It is also said that the Turks, well aware of his feats of organization among the Arabs, had put a price upon his head.
