_The Story of a Wonderful Feat_
_Told by Private Miron D. Arber, Army Service Corps_
Whilst living in Jaffa, Palestine, the author--a Russian
subject--volunteered to join the British Red Cross, but before he
could leave, Turkey declared war, and he was arrested and sent to
a prison camp in the interior. From this dreary place he made his
escape, and, cleverly disguised as a Bedouin woman, actually crossed
the terrible desert of Sinai, a distance of two hundred miles, to the
verge of the Suez Canal. On the banks of the Canal, when within an
ace of regaining his liberty, he was seized by Turkish patrols and
turned back into the desert. Sick at heart, he retraced his steps,
secured another female disguise, and--let him tell his own story as
he tells it in that thrilling journal of adventure, the _Wide World
Magazine_.