"SEVEN PILLARS."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 114, 17 May 1938, Page 5

"SEVEN PILLARS."

DEDICATED TO WOMAN

SHE ENDURED TORTURE.

' DID NOT GIVE HIM AAV AY. i j (Special.— By Air Mail.) i LONDON". April 29. Lawrence of Arabia. enijrinatie archaeologist-turned soldier, all his life slimmed women. K\ idence has now been discovered that he dedicated hi> famous ' book. "Sevm Pillar* of Wir-doin," to e ' I woman. , She was Sara Aaron«ohn. a red-haired . Uewess. wliii. while still in h<-r twenties, .shot her.-elt rather than betray him to f the Turks after she had been tortured. . Slie was hea<l of the British Secret ' ! Service ill I'alwtiiiP. Lawrence. dis ? iM-ed, | m r-tirrin- lip the Arabs to rcw.lt. Whether they «ere lovers. ~ro!,a<,y o ',„„. will ever know. But Laurence wrote jll life dedication to his j To S.A. 11 1,,v0<l v 0... s<. I <lr.-w .Los.- ti.lo< ..f men I into my h " , " l * ~, , ,. t j,, ~ lr< i^ I worthy bnUKf. . JTlint your ryes iiiitflil ix- >Ihi"ij- l->r mWhen we tame. The revelation that 'S.A." «;■- >ara Aaronsohn was made wlien an American journalist. Stanford (Jninberji. recently wrote to lier lAtii.-r ill Haifa for news of his family in l'al««-tiiit'. S.ira was couriu, a friend of iiir- childhood. It is believed Sara lir.-t met Lawrence in Cairo. S'ie became liea<l of a secret office outside which was hi* clearinjr hoiit-e. In March. 191S, (Tprnian agents <liscovere.l the office and tracked. down Sara to her home at Zic'irow. They tortured her for three day*. but failed to make her name the mysterious Englishman who. disjjuiscd a,i an Arab ~heik. harassed the Turks. At lat=t she went to a room where a revojver had lieen c«>n<-calc.l and ki!li-a herself. Sara, it is Itelievetl. l«»fi ,\ for Lawrence. It never reached him.