The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1930. FINALE TO A FEUD

Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2559, 16 April 1930, Page 4

The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1930. FINALE TO A FEUD

Tn the- making of peace in this era of the dove not t'hfe least notable achievement, of which, strange to relate, so little has been nni.be has been the coming together of two Very bitter Kingly enemies, Feisal - King of Iraq (tint short term for that blessed ancient word, 1 Mesopotamia), and Ibn Sand, King ol the Media/, and Sultan of Nc.jd. \ ery brief reference was mad.i by tho cableman a few weeks ago when these two feudists shook hands and signed a peace pact oil hoard tho British warship la l pin at anchor in the Persian Gulf. Tim agreement which they signed is based on a. treaty of friendship. Tho enmity than Existed between them was not merely diplomatic. 11 was hitter arid personal. Kin??’ Feisal, descendant of Mohammed, is a son ot the ex-King of Mecca, who was compelled hy Ibn Saudi to abdicate in 1024. He. is 43 years of age, and Ibn Sand. “The Cromwell of the Desert,” « tall, hoarded Bedouin, is SO. King Feisal came into promimsiee in the war, wfcjen he led an. Arab forc-e that co-operated with I.r.rd Alienin' in the conquest of Palestine and Syria. He entered Damascus just ahead of Lord Allenby’s weary cavalry, with the aid of a motor ear and the romantic Colonel Lawrencd. Ibn Sand did hipreparatory part of the good work in the war by driving the Turks from tho ancient city of Hasa. in Arab!; in 1913, overthrew all wtyi stood ii his way and in 1926 was proclaimed King of tho Hadjaz in the holy city of Mecca itself. Since then he and Feisal have been at odds, but now there is pflace in the whole ol ancient Arabia and Iraq, along the valley of tfcje Euphrates.