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BEDOUINS MASSACRED.
IBN SAUD'S SON ACTIVE
Australian and N.Z. Press Association. JERUSALEM, April 2.
Five hundred Transjordanian Bedouins are reliably reported to have been killed as a result of a Wahabi raid on a great encampment at Jebel Bcib. It is reported that only five men escaped after the male occupants of from 300 to 400 tents had been massacred. The Jerusalem correspondent of the British United Press reports that an army of 8000 Wahabis led by a son of Ibn Saud, King of the Hedjaz, is being concentrated behind the Jebel Druse bound-
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20221, 4 April 1929, Page 9
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