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REVOLT IN YEMEN IRAQ REFUSES TO HELP (11 a.m.) BAGHDAD, March 12. Tribesmen under the command of Emir Seif El Islam Ahmed, the eldest son of the murdered Iman Yehia and claimant to tho throne which Emir Abdullah El Wazir now occupies, are laying siege to Yemen’s capital, Sana. Iraq has refused to help El Wazir, who is reported to have sent a message to the representatives of the Big Four in Cairo for help. Yemen is a savage little Arab country of 3,500,000 people fronting on to the Red Sea, where thieves have their fingers cut off and married adulterers are stoned to death. It is the legendary “Arabia Felix,” of Sinbad the Sailor and the Queen of Sheba.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22585, 13 March 1948, Page 5
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