THE CITY OF BAGDAD.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1876, 12 September 1918, Page 4

THE CITY OF BAGDAD.

UNDER BRITISH OCCUPATIOX. So lit lie is heard of Bagdad nowadays that special interest attaches to a report as to conditions there, sent by the British official correspondent at the beginning of last month. When the British Army entered on March litli last year, Bagdad was to all appearances dead. Xow it is a bustling hive of Immunity: —“Thousands of workmen puss through the streets early and late. The main street is paved and lighted. There is a constant stream of trafllc. and the sleepiest old women who haunt the streets have become adept at dodging Hie American motor cars which rush through (he streets. A police force and a lire department have been organised. The old-fashioned oil lamps in the streets have been replaced by electric lights. The water supply has been improved and extended. Mosques have been repaired, roads have been paved, and schools, including a training school fur native teachers, have been opened. The streets now are well watered in dry weather, and sanitary officials have penetrated the most hidden corners of the city. The municipal government has been made self-supporting. Two bridges have been thrown across Hie Tigris River. These are some of the changes which have conic with British occupation, and have come quietly and unnoticed.” It is difficult to believe that this experience of British ways will not have its effect upon intelligent people in Turkey, who know well enough what is Germany’s way of treating the peoples of occupied territory or subject lands.