Panorama of Jerusalem from Palestine and Syria with Routes through Mesopotamia and Babylonia and with the Island of Cyprus by Karl Baedeker, a 1912 guide book.
Panorama di Jérusalem
"I entered [Jerusalem] officially at noon, December 11th [1917], with a few of my staff, the commanders of the French and Italian detachments, the heads of the political missions, and the Military Attachés of France, Italy, and America.The procession was all afoot, and at Jaffa gate I was received by the guards representing England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Australia, New Zealand, India, France, and Italy. The population received me well.Guards have been placed over the holy places. My Military Governor is in contact with the acting custodians and the Latin and Greek representatives. The Governor has detailed an officer to supervise the holy places. The Mosque of Omar and the area around it have been placed under Moslem control, and a military cordon of Mohammedan officers and soldiers has been established around the mosque. Orders have been issued that no non-Moslem is to pass within the cordon without permission of the Military Governor and the Moslem in charge."
Excerpt from the account by British General Edmund Allenby of his entry into Jerusalem on December 11, 1917. Turkish forces had evacuated the city during the night of December 8–9.
The Great Events of the Great War in Seven Volumes by Charles F. Horne, Vol. V, 1917, pp. 408–409, copyright © 1920 by The National Alumnia, publisher: The National Alumni, publication date: 1920
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