DISPUTE OVER OIL AREA
TROOPS CONCENTRTING IN SOUTHERN ARABIA I CAIRO, January 16. The British-trained “desert force” of the Hadramaut Protectorate is concentrating near Yemen’s southern border, according to an Aden dispatch. Yemen and Hadramaut have been at loggerheats for several months oyer the control of the potentially oil-rich Shabwa area in Southern Arabia. The dispatch said that Yemenite troops and tribesmen were preparing “to match troops against Shabwa,” which Yemen considers her territory.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 79, 17 January 1950, Page 3
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