Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1920 — Arabs Bow to Airplanes. [ARTICLE]

Arabs Bow to Airplanes.

Some of the most modern kinds of warfare have been used in regions where modern civilization had hardly penetrated before. It is an interesting fact that the Arab, who had remained unconquered while all the great empires of the world rose and fell, is at last succumbing before the airplane. He has never admitted allegiance to anyone but Allah and himBelf, and has threatened the lines of communication of all the empires— Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman and British, Even at the height of their power they could not overtake his swift horses when he returned to the desert after a raid But even the Arab horse has ng chance against the airplane. Britifl planes are now able to protect all parts* of the line from Suez to India. Thp French have been using aviators whose nerves went to pieces on the western front to chase the wild tribesmen in the interior of Algeria. And the “Mad Mullah,” when recently he began to preach another Mohammedan holy war, was routed by an expedition of British and Italians, who used both airplanes and tanks.