LIFE IN NEW BAGDAD
Mr. Edmund Cniuller, the represontntiye of tho British Press with the Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia, describing tho transformation which has beyn effected in tho life of Bagdad, says:—"Thiups are alive. There'are hotels—one excellent one—clubs, car> leens, 'a morning paper, iniuinierfible .restaurants which outvie one another in their British names, employing a liomely or patriotic nomenclature as a bait for the soldier—The Hyde Park Restaurant, tho Union Jack, London, Knjdish, Empire, British, Prince of Wales, Trocadp.ro. There are cricket,, Football, or hockey matches every day There is the soldiers' club next door to the open-air theatre, which has been built by the U.E., where touring parties with a sprinkling of professionals in most of thorn] como , in from various fronts to sivo entertainments." Tho. city is now a hustling hivo of humanity, lighted by electricity, with a police forte and rv (ire brigade, schools, and nil the chiirafiterifilics of a well-adminis-tered city; and , the municipality pays its way..
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 311, 20 September 1918, Page 3
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161LIFE IN NEW BAGDAD Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 311, 20 September 1918, Page 3
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