Show EMS beaten ahr BRITIS H coad in TURKISH stronghold HAS BEEN CAPTURED BY ENGLISH FORCES art ni maude maudes force forces win coveted fil 01 after two year years effort may persia now evacuate bagdad the chief turk ladon alon 1 city in aa mesopotamia and former 01 capital ot of the empire of the th apt i ephs phs has bas b been en captured by the tawa announcement by the elation of the city waa was made a the bralish official daily LUI evening by bereau bureau on receipt of a telegram a beneral en eral maude saying the brit occupied bagdad early h forces orce bad had morning no detally were faed in general maudes dia foitl ng tt fill flu of unclad besides ending hope hopes of near eastern dolln 18 tei based on a berlin bagdad rall railway way vill reverberate throughout the mo empires and it Is be bo gayed ted will more than rehabilitate rilla british prestige ge li ill the far east dam jd td by the earlier loss of ot kutel kut yut el astir capture marks tho climax tog ta on of the most dramatic and pic plo phases of the world war nj ib uty which has tallen fallen to british im itaka links the present to A past so labut that it 13 I 1 bulous the tern history of bagdad reaches lack buk for more than four thousand jem to ahe shadowy times of king of babylon a quay adt by the scriptural monarch still aisling in the this tigris cwi its precincts also iso there till still il the tombs of the jewish pronh ilk iti joshua ezra and exekiel ezekiel and th veil well of daniel leas UX itter after the Babl onlan anasty W ceased to be more than a memery bagdad rose rosa to sD splendor lendor as the uti itic literary and ou capital of the world tle TILO heart of 1 I the do peat treat islamic empire of the for hundreds of years it was disown though throughout out the world as the glor lour city and was the he scene of th th Lata exploits of at al lus luschin Risch ld the potentate whose mag li Is immortalized in the arbela nights |