i ® - 4 Fai THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG eo | ei > ---- r---- ' i dpe try to persuade the com- I POOOIGOOCOVE Secret Histor of Arabian Wa 5. Eo loPedadiediods Bloods PVP OTVPIVIIVIVOPIVTNNNY SARL SS A Lass veTTeY & revere e HAVE been reading references to the war in Arabia between the King of the Hejaz--gladiator of the Foreign Office--and the Emir of Nejd--of the India Office--with great interest, since the whole his- | tory of the quarrel is before me, and I have wondered how long it would | be before the curious inéptitude of | policy displayed by his Majesty's Gov- ernment in permitting this fight would come out in the press. The King of the Hejaz was invited by us to join the side of the Allies in 1916, and his troops and resources and influence played a part in Allen- | by's two campalgns against the Turks. His effort in the war ex- | hausted his country, and the nature | of the peace settlement---which may be unsatisfactory to the Arabs--has prevented the diversion of forces to defend the Eastern frontier of the Hejaz against the desert. The Emir of the Desert is Abd el Aziz ibn Saoud, the strongest person- ality of the princes of Arabia. He | regained the throne of his ancestors some years ago by his own efforts, and has since greatly extended his dominions by becoming at once a political and a religious leader. The ascetic tribes of the desert are always looking for a thew creed, and the stern puritanism with which the Wahabi name was associated appeal- ed to the most energetic of them. They joined his banner in large numbers, reverence him as their Imam, and profess obedience to any order he gives. He sends out quanti- ties of paid missionaries, and has lately been making converts among the hill tribes south of Mecca. The King of the Hejaz looks on the spread of the new movement with alarm. To the "Brethren--the name of the devoted in the new sect--he is the great unbeliever, as the chief Supporter of the old "High' party among the Moslems, the warden of the twin shrines of Mecca and Me- dina, and the senior descendant of the Prophet, The Brethren will not admit to their houses travelers from the Hejaz unless they first wash themselves and leave off their contaminated clothes, and a precept in their creed allows them to kill or enslave Mos- le who do not join their sect and abandon tobacco, silk, and precious metals as ornaments. The Wahabi threat to the Hejas | began#m 1917, but was staved off till | the end of 1918. King Hussien over- estimated his strength and sent-- | against our advice--a column of ir Regular camel corps against the ad- ¥ance party of the Brethren, who | bad converted and occupied the vil- lage of Khurma, once in the King's | Bands. The camel corps went une | willingly, since their relatives were in the Wahabi ranks, and almost | without fighting gave up their guns and dispersed. . The King was now seriously armed, and called his second son, i r Abdulla, to take command of | the expedition against Khurma. Abe 1 a. marched 6ut with a column of | * 360 Mesopotamian infantry, volun- teers for the Arabs army, and some | camel corps. The British officers on | the spot opposed his going, and he | was accompanied, of the foreign | + military missions in Arabia, only by -| a French Moslem officer, Some preliminary successes, but was | finally surprised asleep in camp one | night, and fled with his mounted | men, leaving his 250 infantry behind | * him, with his guns and machine guns. The Wahabis took no prisoners, as | ual The British Government was now | a8 alarmed as the King of the | Hejas at the apparently Imminent | of Mecca, and made hasty ar- | rangements for the evacuation by sea of the 8,000 British-Indian residents of ca. Meanwhile officers were by airplane from England to ts to make peace. In my opinion Mecca eould only be made safe from Nejd by garrison- its eastern frontier by a regular on. The job was offered to the ent of Felsul in Damascus, Felsul refused, as I knew he would, He had offered to do it when in Lon- don at the end of 1918, and had "asked for tanks and armored cars for the purpose. There had ensued { _ the usual three-part comedy -- the | ign Office pressing, the War Of- | fice wavering, the India Office oppos- | ing. Eventually the War Office agre- od to supply tanks only to one side-- that of Mecca. The: they began to want their ar- "mored cars in Ireland and Egypt-- 'and after six months' correspondence they offered their tanks too late for ul's convenience. The present policy is to try to re- '¢omelle the two rulers--a temporary measure, which will not stop a new on any more than would the de- of a frontier by a mixed commission. These outbreaks of puri- tanism in the desert happen every hundred years or 80, by a kind of biological law, and die away after success, as this one will die bway. Unfortunately, sometimes, loslem apinioa demands that their hh be hurried, and then a costly like that of the Egyptian ment a hundred years ago, COMes necessary. pean Powers, that seem ~ to act as midwives fo the new move- i «ments of Asia, will be hard put to it meet such a crisis to-day--unless, course, they show greater adrolt- Ress than they have shown In the last two years and adopt an obvious yro- _€edure, urged upon them from sev- _ eral directions, but involving that t dificult thing: Agreement be- een hh a ines] depart- ments. . T. E. Lawrense, in the Toronto Mail and Empire, From Nothing to Millions, Aluminum consumed in the United "States during a recent year amount- d .to 79,129,000 pounds. The pro- duction in 1884 was 150 pounds, ei First Tenement or in 1888, The. first tenement SRY dour-storey i should be well supported by the ad- | ults, fair. | spending the summer here, has re- { a resident of this place, died at the fL. M. { The young people enjoyed a corn | red here on Thursday night. | seriously injured. { Timothy," | Ing it what it musn't say." He won | ouse in New ork city was built in 1833. It was ding and stood in CATARAQUI SCHOOL FAIR There Was a Very Fine Dislay of Vegetables. Cataraqul, Sept. 18.--A very suc- cessful school fair was held yester- day afternoon. The display of vege- tables, cookery, writing, etc., was Woodbine school received for marching and singing, nd. prize, and Cataraquit rural school fair is a thing for 'the children and And now for Bushell's big Mrs. John Simpson, who has Been turned to her home in kondon, W. Edwards and H. Cooke, have returned to the Agricultural College at Guelph. Mrs. Knowles, one time home of her daughter, Mrs. (Rev.) England, at Hudson, near Montreal. The body was brought here for burial on Thursday last. roast at the home. of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Curran last night. Toasted marsh-hallows, roasted corn, pie, etc, made a delicious bill of fare, while games and music made the| evening all too short. | A bad automobile accident oceur- | A car | ran'into the ditch, broke off a good | | sized post, and then caught fire. Two | men were slightly hurt and another | All three were | rushed off to Kingston hospital. The | car is a complete wreck. Miss Bes- sie Edwards has resumed her studies | at J rt College. Harry Rees, Van- | couver, is visiting his sister, Mrs. P. | Ward at Hearthfield. ' His mother, Mrs. H. Rees, who has been here for the summer, will return to the west with him. George Nicol is one of the adventurious ones who had a trip in the airship. Mr. Nicol enjoyed the experience very much. Born, to Mr. | and Mrs. Melville Binnington, Brook- | Side Farm, twins, a boy and girl. What Timothy Was Doing. Little Timothy went to visit his Aunt Elvira, a dignified and severe woman who owned a parrot. 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