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puts my whole heart in the declaration and hurts on asking if it were the
credit of the Young progressive Turks to protect the feudal abuses of a
past age. Djemal seemed to be thrilled. He jumped from his/her chair,
started to walk on and down the room; then with a great dramatic gesture
he exclaimed, her "Justice will be made!" and it assured me that a
errand of officers of army immediately would be expeditious to start a
investigation. I returned to Zicron-Jacob with tall hopes.
Fewzi Bey had summoned some days later certainly, to Jerusalem; to
the same time her "errand" that you/he/she had decreased to an official solo
on secret mission, puts in an aspect and it started to start investigations
among the natives. He found the small satisfaction for before, for them they lived
in deadly terror of the banishes; however, they grew more daring when them
learned his/her purpose. Complaints and testimonies came pouring in, and in
four days the officer had in hundreds the names of of witnesses,
not establishing less that fifty-two crimes of the most serious nature.
The friends of Fewzi and relatives, in the mean while, you/he/she was doing them
maximum to embank the tide of the accusations. The Kaimakam (the lieutenant-
governor) of Haifa entered person to our village and threatened the
elders with all the son-in-laws of the gravities if theirs didn't withdraw the positions
they had done. But they sustained firm. It didn't have Djemal Pasha, commander-in-
the armies' head in Palestine, determined its word of honor that we owe
does have compensation?
We had shown soon the depth of our naivete in to imagine that justice
you/he/she could be served in Turkey as a Turkish. Fewzi Bey returned from Jerusalem,
not in the suits of prisoner, but in the uniform of a Turkish officer!
Djemal Pasha had commissioned him commander of the Moujahaddeen
(religious militia) of the whole region! It was bad enough to bear him/it
as a banishes; we now had to submit to him as an officer. He came riding
in our daily village, ordering each around and choosing out me for