CYRENAICA IS BOOMING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 173, 14 August 1909, Page 4

CYRENAICA IS BOOMING.

A new country is about to be bora into the world, and the world so far recks little or nothing of it.

It is to be called Cyrenaica, and is situated in >'orthera Africa, between Egypt and Tripoli. 'Here the Jews are to establish their kmg-tnlked-of kingdom. From Uoumania, from Kui&ia, and even out of England, they arc preparing to move. The preliminary negotiations have been kept secret for fear of international complications, but it U now knowu .that the powerful Ito society (the object of the society is to procure a territory upon an autonomous basis for those Jews who cannot remain in the lands where they at present live) sent an expedition there quite recently, and though their report is not exactly favorable, it i.s, on the other 'hand, iiot «'o unfavorable as to deter the bolder Jewish spirits from attempting an organised scheme of colonisation.

A thousand lusty young men, armed for protection against the fierce Arab nomads, are to be the pioneer settlers. After.them will come the older men. with their wives and families. Transportation will not be difficult, for the new Holy Laud lies within easy distance of both T.ussia and Palestine. '

It is even nearer to southern Europe. Yet.it has been closed to Europeans from tune iniiiieniorial. This is owing to tlie jealousy of tlie Turkish Government, which has absolutely declined, except on very rare occasions', to permit travellers 'o uass inio the interior.

Yet Turkey welcomes the Jews as ■lew*, the reason being that they linve behind them neither soldiers nor gunboats, so that there is no fear of the forte being called upon to pay compensation in case a few .scores of them •are killed by the desert tribesmen. And tliis is an eventuality that is very likely to happen, for no more dangerous people exist anywhere than the Acre; lunatics who now occupy the territory which it is presently proposed to cull by its ancient name of Cyrenaica. No traveller has ever ventured amongst tliom of late years without havin«'to i.'.'ht for his life.