14 APRIL 1894, Page 3

The Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem, in a letter to Friday's

'Times, gives some facts which show that the Jews are pouring into Palestine. About one hundred thousand Jews have -entered the Holy Land during the last few years, and " the arrival of a vaster host is imminent." "No one," he goes on, " can possibly forecast the next seven years of Jewish immi- gration." If the Bishop's view of what is going on is correct, we are face to face with a fact that may revolutionise the =Ries of Mediterranean Asia. Already the railways are opening up the country between the coast and Jerusalem and Damascus, and if a Jewish immigration on a large scale is added to this, Syria may become once more one of the most important places in the East. The idea of the Jews again possessing a country is a very curious one.