MECCA IN PERIL
ADVANCING WAHABIS
HUSSEIN TO DEFEND CITY
BRITAIN MAY INTERVENE,
(SMITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPZBIOHT.)
(SYDNEY SON CABLE.) (Received Ist October, noon.)
LONDON, 30th September,
The "Daily Mail's" Cairo correspondent states that the Hedjaz Government is evacuating Mecca and going to Jeddah. King Hussain remains at Mecca organising the defences, having transferred the archives and treasures to a ship in the Red Sea. Evacuation follows the failure of a counter-attack under King Hussein's, son, the Emir
tA'i, against the advancing Wahabis. It is expected that a decisive battle will be fought outside the walls of Mecca.
Britain formerly paid the Wahabis's leader, Sultan Ibn Essad, £60,000 a year to keep the peace. It is expected that Britain will be forced to intervene in order to enable the Empire's .Uyal Moslems to pursue their pilgrimages uninterruptedly.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 80, 1 October 1924, Page 5
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