MASSACRED BY ARABS
NATIVE SHEPHERDS WIPED OUT.
FRONTIER R AIDS ANGER . IRAQ. (Received Jan. 3. 7.5 p.m.) • - • BAGDAD, Jan. 2. Atrocities committed by Faisal Dawish’s followers during the third raid are angering all Iraq. Raiders fbroeiouslyi massacred all males including babies, seizing thousands of live stock and leaving the women to starve. The sufferers were mostly harmless shepherds. News circulates too slowly to permit effective punitive r-tion hv the Ait- Force. * , . , Nomad Arabs ate panic stru i-en at the weakness of Dm Saund’s r/gune, which threatens to bring serious eonsequences.,—:v. and N ./.L'.A
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10475, 4 January 1928, Page 5
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