The Kaimakam (lieutenant- governor) of Haifa came in person to our village and threatened the elders with all sorts of severities if they did not retract the charges they had made.

But they stood firm.

Had not Djemal Pasha, commander-in- chief of the armies in Palestine, given his word of honor that we should have redress?
We were soon shown the depth of our naivete in fancying that justice could be done in Turkey by a Turk.

Fewzi Bey came back from Jerusalem, not in convict's clothes, but in the uniform of a Turkish officer! Djemal Pasha had commissioned him commandant of the Moujahaddeen (religious militia) of the entire region! It was bad enough to stand him as an outlaw; now we had to submit to him as an officer.

He came riding into our village daily, ordering everybody about and picking me out for distinguished spitefulness.
My position soon became unbearable.