AN ARABIAN DISPUTE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21122, 24 March 1934, Page 13

AN ARABIAN DISPUTE

jklMi I BN >M I) TO SI I'l'li KSS A ! m:k;iii!oi u I MKCCA. Marc,. lili. lhii .Saud. Kiipy <>f Satuli Arabia, Inis ordered tin- Crown Prince of Arabia to reoecupy the towediips in tin' highlands ul Tehama on tlif i Kcd Sea euasl. u liirh tin: Imam of I t■ir n■: i (Yai.v.i Mohammed llauud jrd- Dm ) seized. i .A cinnmunuji.e >lali.- that Ibn Saud tried all diplomatic means iti ! ;irki];:! an ;u;riTnic!il. but the ] imam persisted in ids policy of ep-pie.-smt; tbo inhabitants and "eradi- ! i;itii)K" ail win did not. surrender. I Tiic Kingdom ol the Hej; was a 'ci eal a'i i i't' tlic war. Iltiscm ibn Al:. |virainl Sheriu ul' Mecca. east olf lii :> 1 aIU-jiiaitci- .i > i :mi linn anil proj claimed himself Kin:: el tile Hcja/. m jif HI, jiiiniiiu 'ln Allies m he war. In j March. !!•!!). Kin:: Hu.-em had lnniself proclaimed Caliph of Islam, to the displeasure «.f Abdul A/]/, es Saud ibn Sauo. Sultan of Nc.id, tl'.e able and warlike leader ef tile Wahabi, the t xtreme f;:n:itic, austere Moslem zealots, who had been .xtelidim: his rule by force of arms over the Arabian desert. He marched against the He.ia/. in 101!"), and forced Husein to abdicate, jrapturiim A ecea by assault. On Jnnu>:iry 11. I'.k'ii. he was proclaimed Km;.; ;"f li:e 11,'ja.' ami Sultan of Ne.id, but ;:n 1!)': L! he changed the name of ins j kingdom to the Kingdom of Saudi | Arabia Tiie Imamatc of Vcmeii adI joins Ibn Saud'.', territory , and extencis ■al< ■ll k tin' soiiih-iast coast of the Red j Sea to Adm.l j .