WAHABI RAID
FIVE HUNDRED KILLED. MASSACRE OF BEDOUINS. LARGE ARMY GATHERED. (United Brass Association —Ey Electric TeiegraFi Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.J Received 2.15 p.m. to-day. .JERUSALEM, April 2. Five hundred Trans-Jordania Bedouins are reliably reported to have been killed as a result of a Wahabi raid on a great encampment at Jekeleed. It is reported that only five men escaped alter the male occupants from three hundred, touts had been massacred.
A British United Press message from .Jerusalem reported that an army of offiht thousand Wahabis, led- by the son of Ibn Sand, King of Hedjaz, is concentrating behind the Jebel-Druze boundary.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 April 1929, Page 9
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102WAHABI RAID Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 April 1929, Page 9
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