LONGMANS, GREEN & CO London, Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras LEONARD SCOTT PUBLICATION COMPANY, New York 1922 JANUARY, 1922 No. 479 THE TROUBLES OF THE HOLY LAND 1. An Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine during the period 1st July, 1920-30th June, 1921. Cmd. 1499. August, 1921. 2. Palestine, Disturbances in May, 1921. Reports of the Commission of Inquiry with Correspondence relating thereto. Cmd. 1540. October, 1921. 3. Reports of the Executive of the Zionist Organization to the Twelfth Zionist Congress. Zionist Organization. 1921. 4. The Holy Land. The Moslem-Christian Case against Zionist Aggression. Official Statement by the Palestine Arab Delegation. November, 1921. BEFORE EFORE the war, the country now known as Palestine (Arabic, Filistia, the land of the Philistines) formed part of the province of Syria under a Turkish Governor-General at Beyrout, together with the small sanjak of Jerusalem, corresponding roughly with the ancient Judæa, under a Turkish prefect in direct relation with the central government at Constantinople. There are no physical or ethnical boundaries separating it from Syria, of which geographically it remains, and must always remain, merely the southern and smaller, as well as less favoured portion. It is about the same size as Wales, and if the mining villages are excluded it has about the same population. It is, to quote Sir Herbert Samuel's most able report, ' a country of mountain and plain, of desert and pleasant valleys, of lake and seaboard, of barren hills desolate to the last degree of desolation, and of broad stretches of deep fruitful soil.' It has, in spite of these diversities, a distinctive character of its It is a country of singular attractiveness and charm, which own. VOL. 235. NO. 479. All rights reserved. A |