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Sir `Abdu'l-Bahá Abbás, K.B.E.
Pages 63-64
 

Sir `Abdu'l-Bahá Abbás, K.B.E.
 
1

Great was the rejoicing in Haifa when, on the 23rd day of September, 1918, at 3 P.M., after some twenty-four hours' fighting, the city was taken by British and Indian cavalry, and the horrors of war conditions under the Turkish rule came to an end.

 
2

From the beginning of the British occupation, large numbers of soldiers and Government officials of all ranks, even the highest, sought interviews with `Abdu'l-Bahá, delighting in His illuminating talks, His breadth of view and depth of insight, His dignified courtesy and genial hospitality. So profoundly impressed were the Government representatives by His noble character and His great work in the interests of peace conciliation, and the true prosperity of the people, that a knighthood of the British Empire was conferred on `Abdu'l-Bahá, the ceremony taking place in the garden of the Military Governor of Haifa on the 27th day of April, 1920.