WARLIKE WAHABIS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 308, 20 March 1928, Page 1

WARLIKE WAHABIS

W MOVE FOR PEACE BY IBN SAUD MASSACRE LAST MONTH ■V Cable.—Press Association. — Copyright. i«cd. 9.5 a.m. LONDON, Monday. The Secretary of State for the Dominions. Mr. L. S. Amery, in reply to 1 question in the House of Commons, ■*aid that Ibn Saud, King of the Uedjaz uni Nejd, did not avail himself of sev--ral opportunities to meet the British 'spresentative. Britain was again suggesting a conMtation to clear up the A'hole Arabian situation. The Bagdad correspondent of the Daily Express’’ says British officials “L ere discredit alarmist reports to the that Ibn Saud is organising a attack on Iraq. They say the Jibes have* long been accustomed to upon raids on peaceful Bedouin Nevertheless it is admitted that Ibn Saud is ambitious find taken vigorous exception to the action of a number of small fortresses desert wells on the frontier *tween and Iraq. PORTRESSES necessary The correspondent says these for.rjf* ar © necessary to deal with re‘citrant tribes. The gravest raid *iw?^ ace on February 19, when 2,000 "wsmen, armed with Turkish rifles ion x 2 unted two on a camel, descended mJ rtval tribesmen who were grazing at Jerishj tn. They cut the of 26 men and murdered all children. 4ft*? kaq Army consists of only men » but there are 100 fighting w hich have penetrated far Nejd country. There are also ° ria dou ble-engined bombers ♦°* carr >’ in K enormous loads of ; r r the outlying stations near

h«,j ® B P°nse to military warnings of re Prisals by airmen many 4 thJ*!* are Seeing from the frontier interior.—A. and N.Z.-Sun.