Show M 5 L E I 1 bf THE BRITISH BAGDAD TURKISH TUR stronghold HAS BEEN CAPTURED BY ang ENGLISH 1 LI FORCES R CES general maudes forces win coveted coceto d goal after two years effort turk may pow mow evac evacuate te persia london bagdis the chief turk fah sh city lu in meso mesopotamia ot amla and nd form former r ay iy y tho the capital elethe ct the empire embro of the caliphs has beer been captured capture 1 by file he british forces announcement by the capitulation of the city was waa made sunday evening b bythe by the Dri breish tish official I 1 press I bureau on i receipt elat of a telegram from general mau mauie e saying ane brit ish forces had ocic occupied led bagdad early sunday morning no details were were contained in general maudes dispatch the fall of bagdad besides ending german erman hopes of near eastern domina ain based on a berlin bagdad rall railway way w will it reverberate t ih brou i ghost t the he mo hammeran ham and it Is be twill arll more than british prestige in the tar far east damby alte a the earlier rhe r loss dt kutel kut el B dads dada capture marks tha the climax to 0 ot of aln thi most dramatic and pic ile ture ro pha 1 bea ed odthe 0 of o the world war the my ty has haa fallen to british arms the presents present to a past so distant alstan th Is T the he kno of af bagdad reaches taci ack f for more ora that tour four thousand ayearst years tot lB shadowy shadowy times g ne ebach zar of babylon a quay guay built ty scriptural mona ach still existing au ed in the tigris w with tb in ats its Are cincis ilso also ithe there re idill till stand tha of the jewish orph ets ra and E ezekiel e 1 ind and tha well wel bellof lof or daniel met long tr the Bablon tan anasty had ceased to tobe be more than a memory Bagda drose e to splendor or as the artistic artist t ll teran scientific and 41 ital ot of the e world Th eheart or of the grea great t Is mic emp empire ir e of the ahe caliph jor tor h hundreds ds 0 afi o years it was vas known knowli throng b the world vo ald a as 8 the glorious city ard was the scene ot of the ex bolts ot of haroun al the potIn potentate tate whose mag Is tin or tallied in the aadla Ar ablai nights |