Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-09-26
$4,000 TURKS
ALLENbY'S BAG
IN PALESTINE
British Booty includes 260 Guns;
Chasing Enemy From the
Holy Land.
NAZARETH IN ALLIES HANDS
Ottoman Soldiers Cut Off by Cavalry
While Trying to Escape Into the
Jordan vaIIey-Town Was
Boyhood Home Of Christ.

London. Sept. 24.-Twenty-five %. thou
sand prisoners and 260 guns have been
counted by General Allenby's forces
pushing northward through Palestine.
according to an official statement. is
sued by the war office.
The war office announcement says
that the Seventh and Eighth Turkish
armies have virtually ceased to exist.
The entire transport of these two ar
mics was captured by the British.
Cavalry Wins Victory.
The victory of Generai Allenby in.
Palestine is hailed here as Il model in
conception and execution, his consum-
mate use of cavalry being especially
praised by the military critics.
The immediate effect of the victory
is likely to be the liberation Of the
Holy Land, for it is anticipated that
General Allenby will have little diff
Guilty in entirely clearing northern Pal
estine and be able to relieve his COM
munications by establishing a base ut
Haifa, whence the railway runs to Bel
san and Damascus. Thus the whole
Turkish railway system in southern
Syria is controlled by. the Anglo
French forces in Palestine.
The Turkish disaster, it is pointed
out, is bound to have the most pro-
found reaction in Constartinople and
Sofia and likewise to compromise the
situation of the Turks in Mesopotamia.
1t seems probable also that it will ter
inmate the Turkish adventures in
Persia and the Caucasus.
The Daily Telegraph, which declares
the existence of the Ottoman empire
is imperiled by one Of the master
strokes Of the war, points ont that
General Allenby struck unexpectedly
early. The Morning Post urges that
a diplomatic effort be made to detach
Turkey from the central powers.
christ's Boyhood Home.
Nazareth, according to biblical his
tory, is mentioned as the village to
which Joseph and Mary, the parents
of Christ, returned from Egypt. There
the unrecorded years of Christ's boy
hood were spent.
the hills on the southern border of the
plain of Esdraleon.
From the name of Nazareth comes
.'Nazarones." the oriental word for
Christians. 1t was in Nazareth, ac-
cording to the Bible that Christ
preached sermon that led to his re-
lection by his fellow townsmen.
Taken by Crusaders.
st. Mary's well is the chief point of
interest to tourists and is situated in
the heart of the town. The belief is
that 1t was from this well that Christ
procured his drinking water.
The Crusaders established the fa-
nous bishopric Scythopolis in Naza-
reth about A. D. 600. Nazareth was
taken by Saladin after spectacular
battle in 1887. In 1917 it was cap.
tured by the Turks.
! The population of Nazareth is esti-
mated at about $500 Moslems and
$500 Christians. These figures were
computed before the outbreak of the
war.
The Church of the Annunciation Is
one of the landmarks of the town.
suitan's Best Army.
The Turkish Nabius army. which
suffered body blow from General Sir
Edmund Alienby's British expedition.
ary force in Palestine. comprises the
flower of the sultan's armed forces. II
is now established the whole Turkish
army numbers not more than. 200, O,OOC
conbative troops.
With every succeeding Turkish re.
verse In the field the power of the
Young Turks becomes more precarious
and the Young Turks gained Their
power mainly through the promise to
reconquer Egypt.