With the Turks in Palestine

CHAPTER XI

ES­CAPE

The fail­ure of my at­tempt to leave the coun­try on­ly sharp­ened my de­sire to make an­oth­er tri­al. The dan­ger of the en­ter­prise tend­ed to rec­on­cile me to de­sert­ing my fam­ily and com­rades and seek­ing safe­ty for my­self. As I racked my brain for a promis­ing plan, a let­ter came from my sis­ter in Beirut with two pieces of news which were re­spon­si­ble for my fi­nal es­cape. The Amer­ican Col­lege was short­ly to close for the sum­mer, and the U.S.S. Chester was to sail for Alexan­dria with refugees aboard. Beirut is a four days' trip from our vil­lage, and roads are un­safe. It was out of the ques­tion to per­mit my sis­ter to come home alone, and it was im­pos­si­ble for any of us to get leave to go af­ter her; nor did we want to have her at home in the un­set­tled con­di­tion of the coun­try. I be­gan won­der­ing if I could not pos­si­bly get to Beirut and get my sis­ter aboard the Chester, which of­fered, per­haps, the last op­por­tu­ni­ty to go out with the refugees. It would be a dif­fi­cult un­der­tak­ing but it might be our on­ly chance and I quick­ly made up my mind to car­ry it out if it were a pos­si­ble thing. I had to act im­me­di­ate­ly; no time was to be lost, for no one could tell how soon the Chester might sail.

My last ad­ven­ture had been en­tered up­on with fore­bod­ings, but now I felt that I should suc­ceed. To us Ori­en­tals in­tu­ition speaks in very au­di­ble tones and we are trained from child­hood to lis­ten to its voice. It was with a feel­ing of con­fi­dence in the out­come, there­fore, that I bade this sec­ond good-​bye to my fam­ily and dear­est friends. Solemn hours they were, these hours of farewell, hours that need­ed few words. Then once more I slipped out in­to the night to make my se­cret way to Beirut.

It was about mid­night when I left home, dressed in a sol­dier's uni­form and driv­ing a don­key be­fore me. I trav­eled on­ly by night and spent each day in hid­ing in some cave or nar­row val­ley where I could sleep with some mea­sure of se­cu­ri­ty. For food I had brought bread, dried figs, and choco­late, and wa­ter was al­ways to be found in lit­tle springs and pools. In these clear, warm nights I used to think of David, a fugi­tive and pur­sued by his en­emies. How well I could now un­der­stand his de­spair­ing cry: “How long wilt thou for­get me, O Lord? for ev­er?... How long shall mine en­emy be ex­alt­ed over me?”

Five nights I jour­neyed, and at last one morn­ing beau­ti­ful Beirut ap­peared in the dis­tance and I found my­self in the for­est of pines that leads in­to the city. The fresh dawn was filled with the balmy breath of the pines and all the odors of the Lebanon. Driv­ing my don­key be­fore me, I bold­ly ap­proached the first pick­et-​house and salut­ed the non-​com­mis­sioned of­fi­cer in mil­itary fash­ion. He stopped me and asked whence I came and where I was go­ing. I smiled sweet­ly and replied that I was the or­der­ly of a Ger­man of­fi­cer who was sur­vey­ing the coun­try a few hours to the south and that I was go­ing to Beirut for pro­vi­sions. Then I light­ed a cigarette and sat down for a chat. Af­ter dis­cussing pol­itics and the war for a few min­utes, I jumped up, ex­claim­ing that if I didn't hur­ry I should be late, and so took my de­par­ture. It was all so sim­ple, and it brought me safe­ly to Beirut. My don­key, hav­ing served the pur­pose for which I had brought him, was speed­ily aban­doned, and I hur­ried to a friend's house, where I ex­changed my uni­form for the garb of a civil­ian.

My sis­ter was the most sur­prised per­son on earth when she saw me walk­ing in­to her room, and, when I told her that I want­ed her to go with me on the Chester, she thought me crazy, for she knew that hun­dreds of per­sons were try­ing in vain to find means of leav­ing the coun­try and it seemed to her im­pos­si­ble that we, who were Turk­ish sub­jects, could suc­ceed in out­wit­ting the au­thor­ities. Even when I had ex­plained my plans and she was will­ing to ad­mit the pos­si­bil­ity of suc­cess, she still felt doubts as to whether it would be right for her to leave the coun­try while her friends were left be­hind in dan­ger. I as­sured her, how­ev­er, that our fam­ily would feel re­lieved to know that we were in safe­ty and could come back fresh and strong af­ter the war to help in re­build­ing the coun­try.

Hav­ing gained her con­sent, I still had the dif­fi­cult prob­lem of ways and means be­fore me. The Chester had or­ders to take cit­izens of neu­tral coun­tries on­ly. Pass­ports had to be ex­am­ined by the Turk­ish au­thor­ities and by the Amer­ican Con­sul-​Gen­er­al, who gave the fi­nal per­mis­sion to board the cruis­er. How was I to pass this dou­ble scruti­ny? Af­ter long and ar­du­ous search, with the as­sis­tance of sev­er­al good friends, I at last dis­cov­ered a man who was will­ing to sell me the pass­ports of a young cou­ple be­long­ing to a neu­tral na­tion. I can­not go in­to par­tic­ulars about this ar­range­ment, of course. Suf­fice it to say that my sis­ter was to trav­el as my wife and that we both had to dis­guise our­selves so as to an­swer the de­scrip­tions on the pass­ports. When I went to the Amer­ican Con­sulate-​Gen­er­al to get the per­mit, I found the build­ing crowd­ed with peo­ple of all na­tions,--Span­ish and Greek and Dutch and Swiss,--all wait­ing for the pre­cious lit­tle pa­pers that should take them aboard the Amer­ican cruis­er, that haven of lib­er­ty and safe­ty. The Chester was to take all these peo­ple to Alexan­dria, and those who had the means were to be charged fifty cents a day for their food. From be­hind my dark gog­gles I rec­og­nized many a per­son in dis­guise like my­self and seek­ing es­cape. We nev­er be­trayed recog­ni­tion for fear of the spies who in­fest­ed the place.

Af­ter se­cur­ing my per­mit, I ran down­stairs and straight to “my” con­sul, whose drago­man I took along with me to the _ser­aya_, or gov­ern­ment build­ing. Of course, the drago­man was well tipped and he helped me con­sid­er­ably in has­ten­ing the ex­am­ina­tion I had to un­der­go at the hands of the Turk­ish of­fi­cials. All went well, and I hur­ried back to my sis­ter tri­umphant.

The Chester was to sail in two days, but while we were wait­ing, the alarm­ing news came that the Amer­ican Con­sul had been ad­vised that the British Gov­ern­ment re­fused to per­mit the land­ing of the refugees in Egypt and that the de­par­ture of the Chester was in­def­inite­ly post­poned. With a sink­ing at my heart I rushed up to the Amer­ican Con­sulate for de­tails and there learned that the U.S.S. Des Moines was to sail in a few hours for Rhodes with Ital­ian and Greek refugees and that I could go on her if I wished. In a few min­utes I had my per­mit changed for the trip on the Des Moines and I hur­ried home to my sis­ter. We hasti­ly got to­geth­er the few be­long­ings we were to take with us, jumped in­to a car­riage, and drove to the har­bor.

We had still an­oth­er or­deal to go through. My sis­ter was tak­en in­to a pri­vate room and thor­ough­ly searched; so was I. No­body could leave the coun­try with more than twen­ty-​five dol­lars in cash on his per­son. Our bag­gage was care­ful­ly over­hauled. No pa­pers or books could be tak­en. My sis­ter's Bible was looked up­on with much sus­pi­cion since it con­tained a map of an­cient Canaan. I ex­plained that this was nec­es­sary for the ori­en­ta­tion of our prayers and that with­out it we could not tell in which di­rec­tion to turn our faces when pray­ing! This seemed plau­si­ble to the Moslem ex­am­in­ers and saved the Bible, the on­ly book we now pos­sess as a sou­venir from home. Now our pass­ports were ex­am­ined again and sev­er­al ques­tions were asked. My sis­ter was brave and self-​pos­sessed, cool and un­con­cerned in man­ner, and at last the fi­nal sig­na­ture was af­fixed and we jumped in­to the lit­tle boat that was to take us out to the ship.

At this mo­ment a man ap­proached, a dry-​goods deal­er of whom my sis­ter had made some pur­chas­es a few months be­fore. He seemed to rec­og­nize her and he asked her in Ger­man if she were not Miss Aaron­sohn. I felt my blood leave my face, and, look­ing him straight in the eye, I whis­pered, “If you say one word more, you will be a dead man; so help me God!” He must have felt that I meant ex­act­ly what I said, for he walked off mum­bling un­in­tel­li­gi­bly.

At last the boat got away, and five min­utes lat­er we were mount­ing the side of the Des Moines. Throngs of refugees cov­ered the decks of the cruis­er. Their faces showed ten­sion and anx­iety. Their pres­ence there seemed too good to be true, and all await­ed the mo­ment when the ship should heave an­chor. A Fil­ipino sailor showed us about, and as he spoke Ital­ian, I told him I want­ed to be hid­den some­where till the ship got un­der way. I felt that even yet we were not en­tire­ly safe. That my fears were jus­ti­fied I dis­cov­ered short­ly, when from our hid­ing-​place I saw the shop­keep­er ap­proach­ing in a small boat with a Turk­ish of­fi­cer. They looked over all the refugees on the deck, but searched for us in vain. Af­ter a half-​hour more of un­com­fort­able ten­sion the en­gines be­gan to sput­ter, the pro­pellers re­volved, and--we were safe!

[IL­LUS­TRA­TION: BEIRUT, FROM THE DECK OF AN OUT­GO­ING STEAM­ER]

The day was dy­ing and a beau­ti­ful twi­light soft­ened the out­lines of the Lebanon and the hous­es of Beirut. The Mediter­ranean lay qui­et and peace­ful around us, and the healthy, stur­dy Amer­ican sailors gave a feel­ing of con­fi­dence. As the cruis­er drew out of the har­bor, a great cry of farewell arose from the refugees on board, a cry in which was min­gled the re­lief of be­ing free, an­guish at leav­ing be­hind par­ents and friends, fear and hope for the fu­ture. A lit­tle lat­er the sailors were lined up in arms to salute the Amer­ican flag when it was low­ered for the night. Moved by a pow­er­ful in­stinct of love and re­spect, all the refugees jumped to their feet, the men bare­head­ed and the wom­en with fold­ed hands, and in that mo­ment I un­der­stood as I had nev­er un­der­stood be­fore the re­al sa­cred mean­ing of a flag. To all those peo­ple stand­ing in awe about that piece of cloth bear­ing the stars and stripes Amer­ica was an in­car­na­tion of love uni­ver­sal, of free­dom and sal­va­tion.

The cool Syr­ian night, our first night on the cruis­er, was spent in songs, hymns, and con­ver­sa­tion. We were all too ex­cit­ed to sleep. Friends dis­cov­ered friends and tales of woe were ex­changed, sto­ries of hard­ship, in­jus­tice, op­pres­sion, all of which end­ed with mu­tu­al con­grat­ula­tions on es­cap­ing from the clutch­es of the Turks.

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