AMERICANS AMBUSHED.
WAHABIB KILL MISSIONARY.
(Australian Press Assn. — United Service., (Received 1.30 p.m.) BASRA, January 21. One hundred Wahabis hidden in desevt scrub ambushed two motors, containing Mr. Charles Crane, ex-American Ambassador to China, and three others travelling to Koweit from Basra. They fired a fusillade which kill the Rev. Henry Bilkett, an American Presbyterian missionary. The others ware not in- " jured and escaped.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 18, 22 January 1929, Page 7
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