---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 21
number: 5
published: 1918-03
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: "Young Men's Mutual Improvement Associations, “Jerusalem Delivered,” *Improvement Era* 21, no. 5 (March 1918): 431."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2105unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2105unse
start_page: 431
end_page: 431
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1918-03)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2105unse
  publication_year: 1918
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1918, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Jerusalem Delivered

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the victorious British forces, is shown entering Jerusalem on foot, after he

had succeeded in wresting it from the sway of the Turk. The Turks and

their Teuton allies had already evacuated the city, and the British forces

were in complete control when the British commander made his triumphal

entry through the Jaffa gate. Accompanying Gen. Allenby are his staff and

the commanders of the French and Italian forces who co-operated with the

British in the drive through Palestine. This is the first official photo, show-

ing the British forces entering the Holy City.
