Bassett
JOHN SPENCER, American historian, born in Tarboro, N. C., Sept. 10, 1867; graduated at Trinity College, Durham, N. C., in 1888, and took a Ph. D. at Johns Hopkins in BASTARD healthful. Most of the houses are low huts, built of unburned bricks. The population, which had sunk to a few thousand, greatly increased when the British established the Tigris and Euphrates Steamship Company and is now about 60,000. A good business is done in the exchange of the productions of Turkey and Persia for Indian and European goods, particularly articles of British manufacture. The town has become the principal port of Mesopotamia. Bassors, was founded in 636 by the Caliph Omar, and soon became one of the most famous and opulent cities of the East. The possession of it between the Turks and the Persians. On has been the subject of many contests Nov. 23, 1914, British forces defeated and routed the Turks near the city and occupied Basra. As a result of the treaty of peace with Turkey Basra became part of the independent State of Mesopotamia under a British mandate.