Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-10-28 | Page 4 | The Capture of Aleppo

THE CAPTURE OF ALEPPO. When tho British captured Aleppo, they severed the main railroad connection con-nection between Constantinople and j Bagdad, and placed tho Turkish troops ! in Mesopotamia in a position of great j danger. This cutting of the one great artery I of supply leading Into the land of the j Euphrates and Tigris rivers should hasten tho day when Turkey surrenders surren-ders unconditionally. Aleppo is the Junction of the kaiser's Berlin-to-Bagdad railroad nnd the line that comes out of the Holy Land. Its capturo ends the dream of Prussian conqMest of the cas To obtain possession pos-session of the empire to the east of Aleppo was one of the great incentives which drove the kaiser headlong into tho war. And now it is all an empty dream, and, instead of Germany directing di-recting tho development of that vast! stretch of fertile land on the Euphrates, GreajL Britain is to control. Seemingly the kaiser gambled for big stakes and lost all. "Emperor WI1-Ham WI1-Ham was proceeding to annex Bel-glum, Bel-glum, and perhaps Holland, take over a big slice of Russia and dominalo Turkey, Tur-key, making Mesopotamia a German colony, with designs on India. Now it Is evident tho kaiser will lose his throne and Germany havo Alsace-Lorraine carved out of its side. Furthermore, Further-more, the empire of the superman will be reduced to a position of inferiority in tho council of tho nations and heavy 'burdens will be placed on the offender of-fender against humanity. The outcome of this war should be a most impressive lesson for the rulers of the future who may be tempted to seek to conquer tho world. ' ' By tho Vay, there will not be many real autocrats in the world at the end of the present conflict. Self-determination will bo applied to Russia In its several divisions, also to Poland, Bulgaria, Bul-garia, Turkey, Austro-Hungary and even Germany. There is to bo a crash of thrones of Europe, and now republics are to be constructed on the ruins of misrule. OO