WAHABI RIOTS
QUIET PERIOD EXPECTED. DURING SUMMER SEASON DEFENDERS TAKTXG XO RTSTCS BY CABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION-COPYRIGHT. Received 11 a.m. to-dav. BASRA, March 26. Picked pilots, experienced in desert campaigning, have arrived from England, but further Wlahiabi trouble is no't expected until the next cold season. The desert wells, on which tlio raiders defend, are already drying up. The defenders, however, are taking no risks.—A.P.A. and “'Sun.*”
EXPORT OF AMMUNITION
SUPPLY TO HEDJAZ GOVERNMENT Rceived 10.10 a.m. to-day. LONDON, March 26. In the House of Commons the Rt. Hon. L. C. M. ,S. Am.ery informed Commander Kenwort'hy that he was not, consulted before a license was granted in November, 1927, for the export of two million Lec-Enfield cartridges to the Hedj'az Government, but the Foreign Office service departments were consulted. / The latest information was that the King of the Hedjiaz, had disassociated himself from the Natives’ recent aggression and he had not supplied them with munitions. —'A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 March 1928, Page 5
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157WAHABI RIOTS Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 27 March 1928, Page 5
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