The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 29, 1919, Page 2, Image 2
GAVE BREAD
FROM HEAVEN
MODERN MIRACLES IX THE HOT
SANDS OF ARABIA.
Airships Brought Food
When Starvation Stared Them in the
Face, Relief Conies to the Beleaguered
Warriors.
He gave them bread from heaven
to eat.?John 6:31.
The most of us know the old Bible
oVv/mi+ the pliilrlren of Israel.
Slui ?? auwut v.4i^ ?
v just out of bondage in Egypt, lost
aiafcrwandering in the desert, weary,
footsore, disappointed, hungry; a
scorching sun in a cloudless sky, a
waste of burning sand stretching to
the horizon on every side, and of
how they began to yearn for the flesh
pots of Egypt and to grumble at
Moses and Aaron, who had brought
them to this pass.
And then, when it seemed that
starvation must come soon, the Lord
opened the windows to heaven and
rained down manna upon them; they
ate and were filled, and marched on,
arriving finally in the Promised Land,
a place where milk and honey flowed.
That happened 3,410 years ago.
And just a few months ago, in the
spot where the children of Israel
were so miraculously fed from the
heaven 34 centuries ago, some of
their own descendants, starving in
the same, desert, were fed from the .
sky, too, but this time it was not a .
miracle, unless it can be called a 1
miracle when an airplane loaded with (
bread, fluttered down from the clouds
and landed in their midst.
It was just one more startling in- .
cident of the great war; and the
story of it is told by Jules Chancel,
a French war correspondent, in the
last number of "Lectures PourTous,"
a magazine printed in Paris. {
Chancel was sent by his magazine
to watch the allied campaign against ,
the Turks in Palestine and Arabia.
He was attached to the Arabian army J
commanded by the 34-year-old Gen-eral
Feysal, Emir of Hedjaz.
Feysal's warriors were Arabs?
mothered by the desert, and trained ,
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to ride horseback before they could
waiK. i nese rougnrmers ou me sauu;
wastes of Arabia and Sytia were
mounted on lean desert horses, and ^
armed with jeweled daggers and long ,
barreled saddle guns of the Levant. ^
They wore flowered robes and silk
turbans with long, loose ends falling ,
over their shoulders to protectt their
necks from the hot sun. They were t
without artillery or modern equip- j
ment of any kind, and their "supply
train" was simply a small caravan of t
camels that carried food and water in
the long and swift flight across the
desert.
The Turkish troops against which
they fought were commanded by Ger- i
man officers, were well drilled in ^
modern military tactics and were
s \
equipped with modern rifles and {
small arms; but they were often beat- ^
en by the wild riding Arabs.
Chancel tells how a detachment of ,
2,000 of these Arab horsemen made a
raid on a Turkish railway that had t
been pushed out into the desert east ,
(
of Palestine, the same "wilderness" ,
in which the children of Israel wandered
for 40 years on the journey
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from Egypt to the Land of Canaan, j
The Arabs planted a mine under a <
long trestle on this railway line.
Then they lay hidden behind the cactus
plants of the desert and set off
the mine while a train loaded with
Turkish troops was crossing it. Many
were killed, and in the panic the <
Arabs took 1,000 Turkish prisoners. 3
In trying to escape, the Arabs 1
v were surrounded by a large force of
Turks which camped in the desert ]
and began a siege of the Arabs with- 1
in the circle, expecting to starve .
them into surrender. 1
Tho Arohc Viarl a moaprpr snnnlv i
of water from a spring in a little 1 1
grove of palm trees, but they had | ]
rations for only a few days. Fevsal
knew that unless he could get relief ,
from the British forces on the Red \
sea he would surely have to die of i
starvation out there on the desert, j
or surrender to the Turks. At night <
he sent couriers on camels but he ]
had little hope that they would ever
reach the British, for first they would ]
have to get through the Turkish .
lines; and even if this were done, the
qamels were weak from lack of
nourishment, the way led across the
desert of Sinai, a journey of more 1
than two weeks. An officer of Fey- 1
sal's army thus told the story to
Chancel: ]
"It would take five weeks to make I i
the journey to the British on the Red I
sea, even with the best of liick across
the hot desert, and back again with i
supplies. While waiting we lived on
green dates, and each day we butchered
two starving and emaciated i
camels and ate them. The morale <
and discipline of our troops was admirable
in this terrible situation.
Lying in the burning sand, anaemic
and exhausted, they waited with the
same faith with which their ancestors
waited the celestial manna on those
same hot sands long ages ago."
The Biblical story, found in the
sixteenth chapter of Exodus, tells
how the children of Israel camped
in tliis same desert, began to murmur
and complain when the food ran
short.
"And the whole congregation of
the children of Israel murmured
against .Moses and Aaron in the wilderness,"
says the Biblical account of
it.
"And the children of Israel said
unto them, Would to God we had
died by the hand of the Lord in the
land of Egypt, when we sat by the
flesh pots, and when we did eat bread
to the full; for ye have brought us
forth into this wilderness, to kill this
whole assembly with hunger.
"Then said the Lord unto Moses.
Behold, I will rain bread from heaven
for you; and the people shall go out
and gather a certain rate every day."
The Biblical account goes on to
tell how the children of Israel looked
toward the sky and "The glory of the
Lord appeared in a cloud." The
bread that fell from heaven was a
small round thing, as small as the
hoar frost on the grounds.
"And when the children of Israel
saw it, they said one to another: It
is manna; for they wist not what it
was. And Moses said unto them:
This is the bread which the Lord
hath given you to eat."
The modern children of the desert
lineal descendants, it might be, of
those very children of Israel, were
more courageous and patient than
they, for they did not murmur nor
despair, although they had only a
little hope of relief.
But, away off in the Red sea a
British fleet rode at anchor, and one
day from out the desert a camel with
an Arab upon its back staggered to
:he shore and fell exhausted, and the
nessenger told Admiral Wemyss of
;he-plight of the little band of Arab
;roops away back there in the desert.
The British admiral did not wait to
send relief by camel train; that
night be too slow. With the fleet
vere several airplanes and the adnira1
waited not a minute, but,
gathering up a few sacks of bread,
le sent it off in advance to try and
each the beleaguered force and
:heer them with the news that an>ther
airplane would follow with food
for all. And so out across the desert,
ind up over Mount Sinai soared a
British airman, and the very rocks
)f the mountain top upon which
Moses might have stood when he received
the tables of stone bearing the
en commandments, the same rocky
leights that rolled back the thunders
)f Jehovah,v echoed the throbbing of
he engine and the whirring of the
jropeller of a British airplane.
The story of General Feysal's officer,
who must have been a Bible stulent,
tells of the arrival of this
nodern manna from the skies, as
tallows:
"And one day, in the blue heavens,
he manna appeared. It came in the
tarm of a huge airplane, sent high
jver the mountain and the desert
md the Turkish lines by Admiral
tVemyss and much reassurance, for
:he pilot announced that another and
i bigger plane would follow with
supplies. The next day it came, and
)ur men were saved, for this manna
from the skies gave us strength to
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send troops to drive off the surrounding
Turks."?Kansas City Star.
They All Joined In.
The attack had been made with a
3ash in the woods, and though it was
not yet dawn, the Yanks were getting
their breath in their new positions.
From his dugout, which a late lamented
Heinie had burrowed, one of
them spied something which another
and less fortunate member of the
bunch had regarded as so precious
that he had carried it into the attack.
It was a banjo, made of a cigar
box.
He crawled forward, got his hands
nn the trophy and retreated with it
to his shelter. It was battered and
two of the strings had snapped, but
in another moment that whole nervous
frazzled group was humming as
tie played:
"I wanta go back, I wanta go back,
[ wanta go back to the farm."?Stars
md Stripes.
On Broadway.
A couple of whom the Milwaukee
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r ree t^ress lens us nau iusi menivay
in their new and expensive ear.
"There is a sign, dear," said the
lady to her husband, who got out of
ihe car and directed his flashlight on
:he board.
"Are we on the right road?" she
lsked.
"To the Poorhouse," he said.
"Yes," he added. "We're on the
right road, you see, although we
Jidn't know it."
SHOOTS BROTHER-IN-LAW.
Claude Martin Held for Death of Wil
Tiner.
Gaffney, May 25.?Sheriff Thomas
of Cherokee county, committed t(
jail Friday night Claude Martin, \vh<
is charged with fatally shooting his
brother-in-law, Will Tiner. Then
were no witnesses to the shooting
except the wife and daughter of th<
dead man, and both testified thai
they knew of no reason for the deed
as the men were apparently friend
ly. After the conclusion of the in
quest Sheriff Thomas and Deput]
Sheriff Watkins discovered when
whiskev had recently been mad*
within about half a mile of Martin's
house, and this fact may have beer
responsible for the killing, as it is
thought that Tiner and Martin hac
something to do with the plant. The
parties lived about 14 miles frorr
Gaffney, in the eastern section of the
county, and both men had beer
looked upon by their neighbors as
law-abiding citizens. Martin was arrested
and is now in the Cherokee
county jail, and will probably be
tried at the next term of the court in
July.
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"My husband said he'd be home
by 9 o'clock."
"Fooled you, eh?"
"Completely. He was."?Kansas
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