WAHABI INVASION
British Attitude Neutral ■ I British Official Wireless.' Rugby, May 7. Information has been received in Loudon that tlie British Minister at Jeddah. Sir Andrew Ryan, has been given an assurance that order will be established in the Red Sen port of Hodeida recently occupied by tlie victorious Wahabis. In the House of Commons to-day. when questioned regarding the situation in Hodeida and Yemen, the Foreign Secretary (Sir John Simon 1 said that the British Government hnd liveserved an attitude of strict neutrality toward the conflict between Um Sand and the Iman, with both of whom the British Government was ir friendly treaty relations, taking only such measures ns had proved essential tor 'he safeguarding of tin- lives and pro perty of British subjects and Britishprotected persons in the area affected by the hostilities.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 189, 9 May 1934, Page 9
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135WAHABI INVASION Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 189, 9 May 1934, Page 9
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