DESERT BATTLE.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 October 1922, Page 4

DESERT BATTLE.

JERUSALEM, Aug. 21. Approximoely 1,000 Wahabi Bedouins raided the Beni Sakr tribe in Trans-Jordania on Tuesday and murdered 35 persons. The raid Mas iopulsed, and the enemy lost 500 killed 300 camels, and 3 standards. ’Hie Beni Sakr tribesmen pursued the raiders into the desert, losing 10 killed. The Wahabi are a Mahommcdr.ii sect ,vln\ snnlr 1r» rsf’lllltlll'fi tllO simplicity of

early Islam- They are now of dwindling importance, although early in the 19th. century the Indian branch defeated the Sikhs. The leader of the Bedouins is the Sultan of Nejd, Abd-01-Aziz es Sand, who is paid £60,000 a year by the British Government to see that peace is kept by the tribesmen. This attack was made in defiance of him.

ARCHDUKE’S HEIRS. LONDON, August 21. The romance of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (whose murder at Sarajevo in 1914 led to the outbreak of the war) and Sophie, his morganatic wife, has again become a topic of conversation among royalist circles in Vienna, according to reports reaching London.

Owing to the threatened action of the Czeelio-,Slovak Government to split up the estates of Konopischt and Clumotz, near Prague, which the Archduke willed to Maximilian and Ernest, his two sons, Viennese royalists are very indignant. The castles, which were formerly part of the Austrian Empire and the property of the Archduke, are now in Ozeho-Slorakia, where legislation lias been passed for pile appropriation of all property above a certain acreage. The Vienna royalists declare that the action of the Czeeho-Slorak Government is illegal, ns Ferdinand’s two sons, Maximilian and Ernest, were never in the line of succession for the throne. It is asserted that this legal difficulty lias been overcome by the Czecho-Slovak Government- declaring Maximilian and Ernest to lie true Hnpsburgs. Maximilian, who is 20. is studying for a legal career, and Ernest who is 18, is studying agriculture.