AN ARABIAN EMPIRE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LII, Issue 9187, 6 September 1906, Page 6

AN ARABIAN EMPIRE.

■■■ I A great deal of new and -welcome l^ght,,, |is thrown upon the .whole subject^ of aY Mohammedan revival by an article in the National Review., from the pen of < Mr' ArphibaOd Dunn. ,The writer shows that within the fast J8 months the whole of the independent Arab ,tribes inhabiting the territories of '^tfce Nedfed, the Yemen, the Hedjaz, and those along the Persian Gulf to Oman and tihe "hinterland of Aden, have formally thrown off their allegiance to, the Sultan, and lave formed 1 an Arabian federation under the leadership of. the venerated Immum Mahmoud Yaihia. He was xmannmously elected Caliph last year by the United Arab tribes. It was in the effort to subdue this inafurrectiott that the Sultan of Tur? key lost the whole of the Turkish garrison at Sanaa in April; 1905, when .the Turkish, troops were surrounded and cut to pieces by the rebels. Later attempts by the Sultan's forces to coerce the rebels were equally unsuccessful, and now there is a "Ligue de la Patrie Arabe," designed to establish, tihe foundation of a new i Arabian Empire, which will extend within ■ its rat<«ral frontiers from the valley of tihe I Tigris and the Euphrates to the Isthmus of Suez, and fro mthe Mediterranean to the Sea of Oman. The league has issued a manifesto, begging "the enlightened and humanitarian States of Europe and North America to favor our movement by tihek simple neutrality, and to encourage us by iftteir sympathy. Then we shall know how to complete our holy and glorious enterprise. We are 12,000,000 Arabs oppressed by a few hundreds of Turco Circassian functionaries, most of whom are I ready to desert their Padiahah as soon as tihey see that we are stronger." Meanwhile tihe Kaiser is said to be mediating over a request from the Sultan of Turkey for assistance in crashing these rebellious Arabs. And as 85 per cent, of the Turkish troops sent to the Yemon last year : . perished from cholora and the piagme, t he I1I 1 prospect is not an exhilarating one. "The 1 1 establishment of' German interests on th.6 ' western shcre of the Red Sea," comment-* [ Mr Dunn, "would be a distinct menace ' to Egypt, as weR as to our loute to In- '•' dia, and it is difficult to see how it could r be met by us." * I t Prepare for croup. P ' Tho time wasted in sending lor a phy- | sician. or for medirine, when a child shows symptoms of CToup, often pToves fatal. A reliable -medicine, and ono that should al- .' ways be kept in the House for immediate use, is Chamberlain's Cough Remedy. It t will prevent the attack, if given as soon as the child becomes hoarse,- or. even after the croupv cough 'appears. It is also the safest, ns ft cor tains no natcotics. For sale by W.,K. Wallace, chemist, and H. E. Harris. — Advt. n Frrr Polds in the Tlead'and lnfli)Pn?a ' Woods' nfr«at 'Peppermint Cure. Is W arifl " 8s 6d D*r !*>«!«.— Attvt.