Show MOS EMS BEATEN BY THE BRITISH BAGDAD TURKISH stronghold HAS BEEN CAPTURED BY ek ENGLISH GLISH FORCES general maudes maude forces force win coveted goal aate after two years yearn effort tu turk r k may now evacuate 1 persia london landom bagdad the vt chief turkish city in mesopotamia mia and former s y tire the capital of the empire of the caliphs has been captured by the british forces announcement by the capital capi capitulation tul aaion of tho city was made sunday evening by the british official press bureau on receipt of a telegram from general maude saying the british forces had occupied bagdad early sund sunday ay morning no details were contained in general maudes ataide a dis als patch atch the fall of bagdad besides ending german hopes of neall eastern dominion based on a berlin hardd bagdad railway will reverberate throughout the mohammedan ham empires and it is be lloyed will more than rehabilitate british prestige in the far east damaged by the earlier barlier loss ot of kutel kut el amara bagdade Bag dads capture marks thes climax to one of the most dramatic and pie pic phases ot of the wo war tile the city which has fallen to io british farms arms links the present to a past so go distant that it Is fabulous the i known history of bagdad reaches back mpr more than four thousand ayears years to the shadowy times of kina aln of babylon a quay built by the scriptural monarch still existing submerged in the tigris within its precincts also there still island stand the tombs of the jewish prophets eta joshua ezra and ezekiel Eze klel and atho the well of daniel long after the Babl onlan n anasty had ceased to be more than a mem lory ry bagdad r rose ose to splendor as the artistic literary scientific and joua ous capital ot of the world the heart lo 10 of the great islamic empire of the caliphs for hundreds of years it was known throughout the world as tile the glor glorious lous city and was the scene ot of I 1 athe the fantastic exploits of II aroun at al das Hasch ld the potentate tate whose mag Is immortalized I 1 in n the arabian nights |