Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1919 — Glimpse of an Empire Abolished by the Peace Treaty . [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Glimpse of an Empire Abolished by the Peace Treaty .

Bedouins eating in their camp near Bagdad, one of the greatest cities in all the old Turkish empire. The Bedouins are wandering clans who seldom stay more than one year in the same locality. Their half Gypsy life will not be much changed by British or allied rule in Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia s farm lands now produce food enough for less than a million people. With modern irrigation methods in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys the region could feed twenty million people. '