As was expeded last week, the Everest Expedition has had to abandon its hopes of reaching the summit this season. It is withdrawing in good order, after a narrow escape and, no Jdoubt, it will bring back™ valuable data of ite experiences, especially in regard to the weather, for the Jguidance of future aspirants. The Possibility of seeing an early renewal of the attempt is by no means clear. It is not entirely a matter of funds, although there "to an important element in delaying resumption of the attack exists, Reluctantly have the Tibetan authorities given permis sion for the various ascents made in recent years. It is probable that the Ruttledge Expedition would not have secured the privilege had it not been for the personal intercession of Sir Charles Bell. Sir Charles is no longer in Tibet. New influences must be making themselves felt there under the regency and whether they are favourable to intrusion on Everest's Privacy cannot be surmised. Much sympathy will be felt with Mr. Rutt Tedge and his colleagues in their disappointment. But it is as well to A. strange element of incongruity, shocking to Christian susceptibilities in viewing the home of Christendom at this juncture, threads through vans in Palestine, Hardly without some act of terrorism Being. committed within the. shadow of holy places conflicting with pro-agated and reverent ideas of mi bers of the faith. Seventeen persons, reported, were injured ina bomb explosion near the Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, which is mot very far from the street Jesus Christ trod on his walk to Calvary. Jaffa Gate is the principal entry to the Holy. City from the hotel quarter where tourists ther by the thousands yearly. 'Turning lett through the gate, wher by the late Field 'Marshal 'Allenby made his triumphal entry into Jerujem during the Great War, David freet is reached and only'a fow hundred yards' walk further, Trough a number of narrow streets and crooked passages leads to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre down the Via Dolorosa, This is. the chiot symbol of the Christian faith, but. political fanaticisms do not seem to lend much stock to this religious proximity, On the Jaffa-Jerusalem Road, where the Cameron Highlanders and the Pates-fine police went into action to dislodge a party of armed Arabs occupying trenches used by the Turks during the war, the scene is some what different and the hilly. terrain offers innumerable strong points. and inaccessible hiding places for snipers. waiting to attack any police forces or troops patrolling the road, Surveying the gnarled and rocky formation of parts of the Jaffa Road and also the Jericho Road, one acute observer announced that he knew—exactly where the ancients had derived their ideas of the forbidding portals of purgatory,
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