WAHABI RAIDS.
Deserts Dry Wells Cause A
Halt.
BRITISH PILOTS STAND BY.
(Received 10.30 a.m.)
BASRA, March 2#.
Picked pilots, experienced in desert campaigning, have arrived from England, but further Wahabi trouble is not expected nntil the next cool season. The desert wells on which the raiders depend are already drying, but the defenders are taking no risks.
BRITISH BULLETS.
4,000,000 ROUNDS SENT.
(Received 10.30 a.m.)
LONDON, March 26.
Mr. Amery informed Commander Kenworthy (Lab., Hull) in the House of Commons that he was not consulted before licenses were granted in November, 1927, for the export of 2,000,000 LeeEnfield cartridges to the Hedjaz Government, but the Foreign Office Service Department were consulted.
The latest information was that the King of the Hedjaz, Ibn Saud, bad dissociated himself from the natives' recent aggression and had not supplied them with munitions.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 73, 27 March 1928, Page 7
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