WARLIKE WAHABIS
TWO MORE RAIDS. A CAMP PLUNDERED. HEAVY CASUALTIES INFLICTED. BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received 2.5 p.m. to-day. JERUSALEM, Feb. 22. The Wahabis, under Ibn Masher, attacked the Beni Sakhr tribe, which was pasturing flocks of camels at Sharabe, 160 miles from the frontier of Transjordania. They killed one hundred Beni Sakhrs. Another raiding party of Wahabis, with a thousand camelry and three liundred horsemen, attacked the Elzsban and Dhakish tribes in Amnn, while the males were absent with their flocks. They slaughtered fifty families and plundered the camps. —A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 February 1928, Page 9
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