Show JERUSALEM NOW IN HANDS OF BRITONS CHRISTIANS REGAIN HOLY CITY AFTER YEARS OF TURKISH TURKISH TURKISH TURK TURK- ISH MISRULE L L f Capture Means Safety of Suez Canal and Egypt and Destroys Prestige of Germany Among the Moslems i London Jerusalem Jerusalem the Ule Holy City which which for for years cars ha has been in undisputed un- un fr disputed possession of or the Turks has hast t t surrendered Over Oyer the city whose history JO mystic and terrible dates r back to the Egyptian Eg records of or 1400 B. B C. C now flies files the Union Jack the k V color tri and the Italian emblem for fort t General Allenby's s Christian army has bas entered the cit city where ans have held swa sway for hundreds of years ears Bethlehem the cradle of Christiani Christian Christian- i ity will also be In Christian hands this coming coining Christmas Jerusalem after being surrounded on all sides has surrendered A shout that thundered a joyous f Amen straight from the heart of civilized mankind went up in the house of commons as Bonar Law made F this announcement on l Monday With a swiftness of executIon and a n genius o of generalship that equals quals the greatest feats of this war from front Tran- Tran to Bagdad Allenby the bull bullas as the army knows him has completed 1 his brilliant campaign Great Britain and her allies hail han him himas as the twentieth century crusader r Chancellor L Law aw told the tle commons that the holy loly places would be safeguarded safeguarded safeguarded safe safe- guarded by British French and Mohammedan Mol Mo Mo- officials who are now on 1 the thc way to Jerusalem The encirclement of the city was l effected when one portion of Allenby's of-Allenby's army advancing from the direction of Bethlehem attacked and drove back t the Turks Turl s and cut the railroad leading from Jerusalem to Jericho where t Christ spent the last night before his hist his t. t crucifixion While this operation was und under r way to the east of the city another another another an an- other part of General Allenby's force launched a concerted attack upon the T Turkish rl positions to the west and n northwest of Jerusalem The vIctory y Is hailed by Britain as the greatest feat fent of British arms in inthis inthis this war var for Its consequences both military and morn moral 1 are me of transcendent transcend- transcend ent importance The capture of Jerusalem Jerusalem Jeru Jeru- salem by the allied forces mean menu the i safet safety of the Suez canal canul and and Eg Egypt and will destroy the prestige of Gel Ger- many mn among g the Moslems 1 r Apart from Its connection with the campaign being waged against Turkey by the British in Mesopotamia the fall of Jerusalem was the definite collapse collapse- of the protracted long-protracted efforts of the Turks to capture the the Suez Suez canal carini and invade Eg Egypt pt Almost the t first st move i made by Turkey after her entrance Into the war was a campaign against i Eg Egypt pt across the desert of the Sinai peninsula |