FIGHTING IN ARABIA
WAHABI FORCES ADVANCING GRIM BATTLE EXPECTED, • CAIRO, May 8. The Wahabi forces are steadily advancing from Hodeida towards Sanaa, the capital of . Yemen, where a grim battle is expected. Another Saudi army, under Emir Ahmed el Showeir, is harassing the Yemins, capturing a caravan and camels conveying ammunition, also two Italian gunnery instructors. Ibn Sand is described as the Arabian Bismarck, and is credited with the ambition to create a Greater Arabia. He is claiming possession of Yemen, which is the richest territory in Arabia. It would give Ibn Saud control of all the cultivated land on the Red Sea coast, besides the desert railway routes from Mecca seaward.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22258, 10 May 1934, Page 9
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