ARAB HOSTILITIES
WHERE DID THE GUNS COME FROM? LONDON, March 26. Tn the House of Commons, Mr \merv informed Commander Kenworthy that he was not consulted before licenses were granted in November 1927. for the export of two million’ Le-Enfield cartridges to the Hediaz Government ,bnt the Foreign Oflice and Service Departments were consult, ed The latest information was that the King of Hedjaz dissociated himself from the natives’ recent aggression. He had not supplied them with munitions. BASRA, March 26. Picked pilots, experienced in desert campaigning, have arrived from England but further Wahabi trouble is not expected until the next cold season The desert wells on which the raiders depend are already drying. The defenders, however, are taking no risks.
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Grey River Argus, 28 March 1928, Page 5
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