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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 47, 20 November 1918, Page 5

. Arabia, the birthplace of Mahomet, has for centuries been a battleground between the Arabians and their most notable converts to ' Mahometanism—the Turks. The Ottoman Empire has latterly included Arabia among its nominal possessions, but the claim has. been fiercely contested by the independenceloving tribes of the peninsula. Now the western section of tne country, which includes the all-important cities of Mecca an-] Medina,, the goal of all Mahometan pilgrims, has thrown off the Turkish yoke, and proclaimed itself independent. It was on Juno. 27, 1916, that-this important step was taken, under the leadership of El Hussian ibn Ali, the Grand Sharif and Emir of Mecca, wljo then became the first monarch of the new Kingdom of the Hejaz. Thi6 step rendered impossible -thereafter the declaration of a holy war, by the Caliph or Sultan) of Constantinople against the enemies of Turkey. Eighty proprietors of, soda water fountains in New 'York wore fined recently for serving drinks in dirty glasses.

Over a thousand coloarod men have been commissioned as captains and lieutenants in tho United States Army.

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