SUBERN ARABIA
TRIBAL HOSTILITIES. STATEMENT FROM MINISTER. [ British Official Wireless. ] RUGBY, May 7. Information has been received in London that the British Minister at Jeddah (Sir Andrew Ryan) has been given an assurance that order will be established in the Red Sea part of Hodeida recently occupied by the victorious Wahabis. In the House of Commons to-day when questioned regarding the situation in Hodeida and Yemen, Sir John Simon said that the British Government had preserved an attitude of strict neutrality towards the conflict between Ibn Saud and the Imam, with both of whom the British Government was in friendly treaty relations, taking only such measures as has proved essential for the safeguarding of the lives and property of British subjects and British protected persons in the area affected bv the hostilities.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 108, 9 May 1934, Page 7
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