Description
Object description
whole: the main image is positioned in the upper half, held within a black border. Four smaller images are placed in the
lower half, also held within black borders. The title is separate and located across the top edge, in black. The text is separate and
positioned in the lower half, also in black. All set against a white background.
image: a photographic view of the city of Jerusalem, seen from the Mount of Olives. The four smaller images include three further views of
Jerusalem and a portrait of General Sir Edmund Allenby, Commander of the British Forces in Palestine.
text: JERUSALEM CAPTURED: THE HOLY CITY WRESTED FROM THE TURKS.
THE capture of Jerusalem by British troops is one of the most momentous episodes of the War. For centuries the Holy City groaned under the
oppression of the Turks, who tyrannised over Christians and Jews alike, and outraged Moslem feeling by their brutal persecution of the
Arabs. Since the Sultan of Turkey became, for all practical purposes, the vassal of the German Emperor, matters went from bad to worse, and
the interests of the peoples of Palestine were ruthlessly subordinated to the demands of German military and commercial policy. The British
troops have entered Jerusalem, not as conquerors, but as liberators, and their advent has been joyfully welcomed alike by Moslems, by
Christians, and by Jews. By this historic stroke, Jerusalem has been from the shadow of an age-long tyranny, and a prosperous future has
been opened up for the virile and intelligent races who inhabit the soil of Palestine.
The occupation of Jerusalem comes as the climax of a rapid and brilliant campaign, and was preceded by the successive captures of
Beersheba, Gaza and Jaffa. Operations were carried on under the most arduous circumstances, and the oppressive heat and choking dust,
followed by heavy rain which made roads, fields, and tracks a mass of slippery mud, imposed intense hardships upon troops accustomed to
very different climatic conditions. All difficulties, however, have been overcome with indomitable perseverance, and the Turk has sustained
the most crushing disaster which has yet befallen his arms. The photographs show (1) a panoramic view of Jerusalem; (2) General Sir Edmund
Allenby, Commander if the British Forces in Palestine; (3) a view of the south wall of Jerusalem, from the lower part of the Valley of
Jehoshaphat, showing, on the right, the south-east corner of the wall and the grounds of the Mosque of Omar; (4) a view of part of the
north wall, showing, on the right, the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and, on the left, the dome of the Mosque of Omar; (5) part
of the citadel and the west wall of Jerusalem, showing the road extending from the Jaffa, down the slope of Mount Zion, and across the
plain of Rephaim, towards Bethlehem.