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more friendly to the Allies than to Germany. The same inform-
-ant states that the Syrians and Arabians throughout the whole of
Syisia are opposed to the Turks / and would welcome a landing by the
Allies at any point on the coast. Germans, too, are in every
way out of sympathy with the people, he said, and native
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opposition has ruined many Qfcnaisft commercial undertakings*
Four noted Arab Nationalists were recently arrested at
Medain Salih; two were condemned to death, two to three years 1
imprisonment*
MILITARY NEWS. It seems that the antagonism between the Germans
and the Turks, due to the reluctance of the Germans to provide
adequate troops for the Egyptian expedition, increases* The
Turkish ministers desire a decisive blow at Egypt at the earliest
possible moment; they suspect the Germans of wishing merely to