Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1912 — HURRYING TO DEFEND CONSTANTINOPLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HURRYING TO DEFEND CONSTANTINOPLE

THE photograph shows Turkish soldiers in a cufa (a type of boat that the ancient Babylonians used) crossing the River Tigris from Bagdad In the first step of their long journey across 1,200 miles of desert sand, towards Constantinople, to help defend the capital of the Turkish empire against Christianity in the last stand of the Ottoman in Europe.