"VANISHED FAME"

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21470, 19 April 1933, Page 13

"VANISHED FAME"

CASE OF LORD ALLENBY QUESTION ON PALESTINE Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby, who was in command of the British forces in Palestine which captured Jerusalem, told an amusing story against himself recently, when he attended the annual regimental dinner of the Dorset Yeomanry at Burdon Hotel, Weymouth. "I was dining in London this week," ho said, "when the lady sitting next to me asked, 'Have you ever been to Jerusalem?' " When the laughter had subsided Lord Allenby added, "There went what little reputation I have had." Also present at the dinner was Jaafar Pasha, Irak Minister in London, who onco fought against the Dorset Yeomanry. It was in the charge of the Dorsots at Agagia, in Egypt, on February 2G, 1916, that their commanding officer, Colonel H. M. M. Souter, captured Jaafar Pasha, then leader of a Senussi tribe. Jaafar Pasha afterwards fought for the British against tho Turks in command of an Arab legion. Ho was personally decorated with the C.M.G. bv Lord Allenby after the war. Jaafar Pasha attended the dinner informally, as a member of the Dorset Yeomanry Old Comrades' Association. He had insisted on paying his 4s for a ticket.