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The Roosevelts At Luxor, Egypt

Theodore Roosevelt, full-length portrait, on horseback, facing front, at Luxor, Egypt

Luxor, Upper Egypt, March 21.—From Assuan to Luxor is 126 miles and Col. Roosevelt and his family covered this distance today in the regular express, arriving here early in the afternoon. From Luxor to Cairo is 454 miles, and the ex-President will reach the Egyptian capital Thursday. There a state carriage will be in waiting, so that Col. Roosevelt may visit the Khedive at the Abdin palace. The Khedive will return the call in person. This will be the first occasion on which the ruler has so honored a private citizen.

On arrival at Luxor today the distinguished Americans were greeted by a great number of fellow citizens, many American tourists having waited at this place to see the former President. Col. Roosevelt held a reception this afternoon at the Winter Place hotel.

Posted inCulture & Society Politics

News of Unrest In The Levant

CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 5.—A Turkish steamer is daily expected from Beyrout with eight Druse chieftains, recently arrested by order of the Seraskier, at Beteddin, near Deir el Kamr. The cause of their arrest is thus accounted for.

In order to insure the tranquillity of the Lebanon, and to prevent a renewal of the sanguinary struggles that have so repeatedly broken out between the Maronites and Druses, and, above all, to check the audacity and unprovoked aggressions of the latter upon the Christians, it has been held advisable by the Porte to disarm both tribes, as far as such disarmament was practicable. But the people, encouraged by their sheiks, refused to comply, and these sheiks, especially those arrested, menaced the Turkish authorities with a general revolt of all their clans, should forcible measures be adopted to produce submission.