THE PALL OF JERUSALEM.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 February 1918, Page 3

THE PALL OF JERUSALEM.

HOW THE JEWS REJOICED,

LONDON, December 11

Few incidents, amid a wealth of heroic incidents, will strike the imagination so much as the fall of Jerusalem, announced yesterday in the House of Commons. For the moment was dramatically appropriate. In practically all Jewish houses last night two small candles were lit; tonight there will be three, to-morrow four, and so until Monday, there will bo eight. ' The illumination is in celebration of the recapture of Jerusalem —not by Allcnby, but by Judas Maccabeus —and the prayer of thanks for miracles wrought and for “redemption,” which is said during the eight days of this festival of Chanukan (Dedication) was never uttered under more appropriate circumstances. The present Chanukan is a dual celebration for Jews, one that will remembered with the origin of the festival which commemorates the purification and establishment of the Temple, for the recapture of the Holy City has a special meaning for the Jews to-day in view of the promise of the Government significantly expressed in the concluTling words of the prayer already mentioned: “And thereupon Thy children came into the oracle of Thy house, cleansed Thy Temple, purified Thy sanctuary, kindled lights in Thy holy courts.” The de-wish World, published yesterday, says: “To-day the greafest Christian and the greatest Mahometan Power of all the world takes to hersdlf a third religious dignity. The capture of Jerusalem and the Government declaration in regard to a Jewish Palestine have made England as well the greatest Jewish Power on earth/’ (