General Allenby's proclamation announcing that all the sacred places of
the three religions would be protected according to their eustoms was read from the steps of the Citadel. Indian Moham- medan guards were placed round the Mosque of Omar. Guards were detailed for the Holy Places and for Bethlehem. Berton Pasha, the Egyptian Postmaster-General, has been appointed Military Governor of Jerusalem. The Germans announce that they evacuated the city because of its sanctity, as if to excuse themselves for omitting to destroy some Christian churches. They naturally conceal the fact that General Allenby's irresistible advance in the hills had made Jerusalem untenable. Our line now extends right across Palestine from Jaffa to the north of Jerusalem. In the centre, General Allenby has advanced this week to the north of Modin, the ancient home of the Maccabees.
