Their Government has done everything in its power to encourage German colonization in Palestine.

Scattered all over the country are German mills that half of the time have nothing to grind.

German hotels have been opened in places seldom frequented by tourists.

German engineers appeared in force, surveying, sounding, noting.

All these colonists held gatherings in the Arab villages, when the ignorant natives were told of the greatness of Germany, of her good intentions, and of the evil machinations of other powers.