The correspondent adds an interesting summary of the outward effects
of the Revolution in Baghdad. The gendarmes are better equipped, are paid regularly, and are actually known to have refused baksheesh from British travellers. Feeble efforts are being made to improve the lighting and water-supply of the town, and an intermittent but outspoken local Press has emerged. The Christians and Jews are jubilant at the recent change, and strongly support the Constitutional movement In particular the Jews, a numerous community, who now practically monopolise the commerce in cotton goods, have begun to adopt Western customs and to promote educational projects,—notably a school where the Turkish language and other subjects are taught which will fit young Jews to be officers in the Army. On the other hand, the town Arabs, the bulk of the population, look on the new movement with disfavour, while in the country they are actively inimical to the new regime.
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