The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-12-10
WIEN SURROUNDED BY BRITISH
ARMY, THE M0SLEM SURRENDERS

London Dec lo.Andrew Bonar Law chancellor Of the ex
the house S st today at that en
had surrendered.
end with two brief nterude of MOI >han 1900 years
session of the of the Christian res by the Mohamme
ershp of the Turks the last Christian ruler jerusalem being
the German emperor Frederick IT, whose sh lived domna-
its h with @ ns
salem the definite collapse of the long protraced efforts
of the Turks to capture the spez canal and invade Egypt
TO the was campaign against Egypt across the great des
ert of the Sinai peninsula
from $4,000 100000 marched the Suez canal and
succeeded in reaching within striking distance of the great
hficia waterway at several points.
For several era months bitter fighting took place the being
New zealanders and French and British forces
For the greater part of 1915 conflicting reports of the ua
ton were received from the belgeren but December of
that year. definite information showed hat the Turks had been
5 pack as far as 81 Ash about s miles east Of the canal
1916 the Turks again advanced Katieh about miles
than and auany of
Cross Into Palestine +.
Another period followed in which the situation greatly
of the official statements but in December 1915 the British
stomed Ell Ars and few days later severely defeated the
Maghdabah about sixty on same
and the forces the border into Palestine
There had been neither official unofficial reports
Land and with intense surprise that the world learned
March last that the British forces had captured Ell Khu
157 miles south of Jerusalem Ell Khu the modern of
ancient Hebron The campaign apsed into stanancy through
the heated period but actively renewed with the setting
of cooler weather last fall.
Capture Old Beersheba.
Early November the British activity resulted the capture
of Beersheba forty miles south of Jerusalem simultaneously
d coastal column became active. BY November the of
GAIA in their hands and the British pursuing the
Turks northwestward having inflicted as
in excess of 10000.
By this time the British inland forces again up the
neghbohood of Hebron where the Turks reported organ
zng for the defense Of Jerusalem General Aenby tn British
commander manwhle kept his forces the rapid
motion and pushed on to Jaffa the port of Jerusalem in mid
November.
BY November 22 the British had pushed within five miles of
on the northwest and December General Allen
by announced that he had definite
salem thus was virtuaycut off all sides but the
Few details have through since that
ccg movement must have ben ecard with considerable
rapdity, eliminating in the surrender of the city.
Is of Hallowed Interest.
In halowed and romantic aspect of Jerusalem
r exceeds the fall of fablecrowned Bagdad
city OF Jerusalem contains about
home of peslence filth and fevers historic interest
naturally to the Christian world all other paces
earth - " f va /
Since the days when Joshua wrested it the hands of
Jebusltes make the capital of the Jewish Jerusalem has
oeen the priced of half the world It has
passed successfully into the hands Assyrans Babvo
mans Greeks Romans Persans Arabs Turks the motley
crowds OF the Crusaders finally fall the descendants
oil that Richard the Hearted who for its
possession more than 1naa, seven hundred years