PALESTINE RIOTS.
SUPPORT OF IBN SAUD. (Australian - Press Association—United Service). LONDON, Sept. 2. “Ibn Saud is essentially a friend of Britain, and will never attempt to create further difficulties in Palestine or elsewhere,” stated the Sheik Wasba, Privy Councillor to the King of the Hedjaz, in an interview in London. Wasba added that Ibn Saud would not countenance anti-Jewish or other similar movements. The King desired Christianity and had faith in British justice. He believed that Britain would evenly hold the balance between the Arabs and the Jews. GREAT SCHOLAR’S BEQUEST. (Australian Press Association). JERUSALEM, Sept. 2. Mr Weiner, the great Jewish scholar, whom the Arabs shot at the Damascus Gate on August 23, bequeathed £IO,OOO to Moslem institutions. He had contributed liberally in his lifetime to Arab education and charities.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 236, 4 September 1929, Page 7
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