PALESTINE IN PICTURES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22908, 16 June 1936, Page 11

PALESTINE IN PICTURES

LECTURE BY DR ROLLS Dr Bolls, during the closing address of his present visit to Dunedin at the Town Hall last evening, led his audience through the length and breadth of the Holy Land. The Rev. James Miller presided. The pictures, which were described in the Toronto Globe as the finest on Palestine that had entered Canada, drew a large audience. Commencing with facts associated with the emancipation of Israel from Egypt, beautiful slides were shown of Pelra Edom's territory, called by the poet " the rose-red city half us old as Time." In addition to vicw s of ancient civilisations that in some wise ifl'ected the people of Israel, the present developments wrought by the returning Jewish settlers were vividly portrayed. Following the prophetic utterance that waste cities would be rebuilt and inhabited, areas of rapidlygrowing cities were thrown on the screen. Associated with the work of the Dead Sea British Chemical Company, exquisite pictures of the waters from which the fertilisers and chemicals were being extracted were shown. The Dr Bothenberg Hydro Electric scheme, the extensive vineyards, orange groves, harbour, and agricultural developments were exhibited in rapid succession. The great advance made in schools and ,colleges, hospitals, and health institutes was displayed in the pictures. The speaker said that the Jews had lifted Pnl-stine in 20 years from the most backward country in what is called the Near East into the most prosperous of mandated territories. By virtue of all that had bem achieved, it will now be impossible for Britain to draw back on her prom if e to make the country a home'■>nd for the Jewish people. " Seeini that our Empire." said Dr Bolls. " handed over a territory 22 times larger Mian Palestine fo the Arabs, and freed ♦hem from Turkish rule, there is no room for 'hat people fo aeitnte for the prevention of Jewish Tmmicrration. Tn addition. Pal-stine holds too fitratesic a position in the Mediterranean as a naval a"d air Inso. to surrender the territory to the nan-Arabic Union dreamed of by the Ibn Sand."