SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1932.
Ally Of Lawrence Leads Rebels
Force Annihilated In Arab Warfare
THE ONE-EYED CHIEF
Correspondence.
SIR RONALD ROSS,
Sir, In 1923
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE DANCING PARTNER
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""There seem to be fewer men
in honour of the from Furtwangen, a small town Old Guibel and his daughter Olga in the Black Forest. There lived were among the guests.
the "During the afternoon of Ronald
there a very wonderful old fel- Itoss,
Geibel. next day some three or four of resturch
named Nicholaus low work, and to alimulate malaria
His business was the making, of Olga's bosom friends, who had also control measures In the Empire.
The Ross Institute was officially mechanical toys, at which work been present at the ball, dropped in He made turally fell to discussing the men. opened in 1926 by H. R. H. The he had acquired an almost Euro-to have a chat about it. They na-
reputation. Prince of Wales, and Sir Ronald Pean
rabbits that would emerge from and to criticising their dancing. ibn Saud's Gavern-Ross first resented
Was the Director-in-Chief the heart of a cabbage, flop their Old Geibel was in the room, but London, Sept. 15. The annihilation of In Hinda's ment, as they find the Puritan form until his death.
Mahommedan religion on What the Institute has already ears, smooth their whiskers, and he appeared to be absorbed in his filibustering experiition, as reported of the in the Hedjaz official.communique of which Ibn Saud's Wahibi sect in achieved is well known the world disappear again; cats that would newspaper, and the girls took no ressen: date, is apparently so com-sists, irksome and contrary to their over, but if its work is to be con-wash their faces and mew plete that this sportie rising in the ideas of freedom. They also hurtinued more financial support mustaturully that dogs would mis- who can dance at every bail you
take them for real eats, and fly]
"Yes, and don't the ones who north of Arabia may be regarded as toured feelings of revenge for the be forthcoming immediately.
There is no endowment fund and at them; dolls, with phonographs go to,' said one of the girls, suppressed. And if the punishment ruthless manner in which Ibn Saud's
other; they make quite a favour of aled out is as ruthless as the re-tribesmen had driven them from for two years contributions have concealed in them. that would! port suggests, no further stivity their lands and looted their animals, been 25 below expenditure. This raise their hats and say, 'Good give themselves aira," said an-
English Remain Neutral. state of things cannot go on much morning; how do you do and asking you.
can be some that would even sing a
"And how stupidly they talk,' as the part of the Arabs in the
The exiled Ibis Rifada, who is one longer. Surely an effort
added a third. They always say Hejaz may be experied.
and song.
"How "But he was something more than exactly the same things: According to the report, Sheikh of the recognised sheikhs of the big made to save the Institute Tha Birada and his following from Billi tribe, together with Suliman place it on a sound financial basis.
a mere mechanic: he was an artist charming you are looking to-night."| His work was with him a hobby, al- "Do you often go to Vienna? Oh, the Bill and Howietat tribes were Abu Tagiga, u minur sheikh of the
most a passion. His shop was fill you should, it's delightful." "What cut off in a narrow wadi or' valley Howietat, organised the expedition,
ed with all manner of strange charming dress you have on." things that never would, or could, "What a warm day it has been."
between
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the and had evidently been led to expect)
Yours faithfully,
C. McLEOD.
Chairman. QUEENSBOROUGH.
Hon. Treasurer.
K.C.C. POPPY DAY RAFFLE.
(The Editor, "China Mall.")
my
article, and with leas need for ex- to
MONDAY'S STORY.
Monday's Short story will be "The Gentleman," by Ernest Betts.
that the whole of their tribesmen Arabian coast, and wellleb..
be sold things he had made for "Do you like Wagner?" I do wish Ibn Saud is said to have had at who live between Wejd and the!
the pure love of making them. He they'd think of something new,' his disposal a large force of the Trans-Jordan frontier, would rise,
had contrived a mechanical don-
"Oh, I never mind how they Hejaz army, accompanied by tribal immediately they entered the Hed.] ·
key that would trot for two hours talk," said a fourth. If a man dan- levies from the Gebel Shammar and jaz. Unfortunately for n Rifada,
by means of stored electricity, and ces well he may be a fool for all! Har tribes. He also had fifteen the British Government adopted a
trot, too, much faster than the live I care. cars, some of which were armoured very uncompromising and rigid}
"He generally is, slipped in a but it was reparted previous to the neutrality-the frontiers were com?!
in a pletely closed, all movements of Sir shall be glad, on behalf these ww
Committee, convey ertion on the part of the driver; thin girl, rather spitefully. engagement that
the medium of your a bird that would shoot up into the "I go to a ball to dance,' contin- bad state of repair and petrol was Arabs stopped, and the Gulf of Suez of
patrolled by two of the Red Seabrnigh
colums grateful thanks to the fol-air, fly round and round in a cir- ued the previous speaker, not no- mot plentiful.
Apparently in Rifada's men had sloops.
the above lost heart at the failure of the! Ibn Ritada at once found himself lowing gentlemen and firms who cle, and drop to carth at the exact ticing the interruption. All I ask
contributed prizes to
spot from where it started; a skele of a partner is that he shall hold ton that, supported by an upright me firmly, take me round steadily, Beduin on the Red Sea littoral to cut off from supplies and reinforce-į
were ments, and, what is more important, rale.
Messrs. I. J. Hunt, R. Rathmell, iron bar, would dance a hornpipe; and not get tired before I do.' join the insurrection and beginning to fall back. The Hedjaz'money. Had he been in a position
a night to offer the Beduin monthly pay Kern, A. C. Jeffreys, J. Gibson, life-size lady doll that could play troops, therefore, made
ar their camels, the George la risan, H. Overy, the fiddle; and a gentlemann with a march, rutting off l Rifuda's re- and forage
beer treal to the north, and in the morn- whole of the northern Bedjaz would lampton, S. Greenwood, The Dairy hollow inside who could smoke a ing the attack was pushed home have joined the movement, and the Farm Ice and Cold Storage Co. pipe and drink more lager
three average German
is! with such determination that prac fighting tribes of the Gehel Sham Caldbeck, Macgregor & Co., Lane, than any tieally the whole force was wiped inne, with their rapidity aroused, Crawford & Co. The Steam Laun-students put together, which
dry Co. Dodwell & Co., The Dun saying much.
Indeed, it was the belief of thei out, and the leaders of the expedl- might have followed suit.
V. C. LABRUM.
town that old Geibel could make a tion-Sheikh Ibn Rifada; with his After minor fight with an out-lop Rubber Co.
man capable of doing everything. two sons, together with Sheikh post ut Moweilich, Ibn Rifada and
that a respectable man need want Suliman Abu Tagiga, of the Howie-his men remained stationary. They must have realised the hopelessness
"A clockwork figure would bé to do. One day he made a man tat-were among the slain.
of their position after the first
who did too much, and it came, the thing for you,' said the girl who about in this way:
hud interrupted. The history of this minor insur mouth of their rising.
"Young Doctor Follen had - a rection is Interesting as it provides! The mystery is that they did not
baby, and the baby had a birth na instance of very thorough or break up and disappear before the ganisation which is normally lack-Hedjaz expeditionary force attacked!
day. Its first birthday put Doctor Follen's household into somewhat ing in Bedajn affairs. In the year them. There is, however, a Anality sup- 1926, after Ibn Sand's successful and completeness about this
the rising that is rising which led to King Hussein's pre zion of flight from the country, many of the strangely foreign to Arab warfare,!
His Excellency the Governor Billi and Howietat tribes, who have and, despite the fact that the com-
the munique is official, one questions of Hong Kong, Sir William Peel, (Continued from previous column) come out on been
to always
faithful. Hashimité dynasty, were driven out whether the band of rebels, together K.C.M.G., K.B.E., and Lady Peel, understood, has
Oh, what a lovely partner he the Trans-with all their leaders, has been so are returning to the Colony from special Colonial Office Work, prob- of their country on
the report Home leave by the P. and O. s.s.ably connected with the reorgani-
sation of the system of govern- would make, said one; he would Jordan frontier and went to live utterly destroyed as
Ranpura next Thursday. with the offshoots of their tribes, suggests.
Among the passengers by this ment in British Malaya, involv-never kick you, or tread on your who have been dwelling for the last
liner is also Lady Clementi, wife ing unified control of the Straits toes."
"Or lear your dress,' said an Aixty or seventy years in the desert
of the former Governor of Hong Settlements and Malay States. eutside Cairo and also in Southern
Kong, Sir Cecil Clementi. now It is not known definitely at pre other.
"'Or get out of step.' Mr. E. D. du Roza Palestine and Trans-fordun, In
in Governor, of the Straits Settle-sent whether Sir Samuel Wilson
"'Or get giddy and lean on you.* April this year Ibn F fada-who is the passengers arriving back
Lady Clementi dis- will be coming on to Hong Kong
"And he would never want to known thronghent the Arab world the Colony from Shanghai on the ments.
embarks at Singapore to-day. Among the Hong Kong resi- as El Oair (the one-eyed man) and m. v. Terukani Mara yesterday.
Another passenger by the Ran-dents returning by the Ranpura mop his face with his handkerchief. who was one of Lawrence's fighting
Mr. E. W. T. Piercy disembark pura is Sir Samuel Wilson, the is Mrs. G. A. C. Herklots, whose I do hate to see a man do that after sheikhs in the Arah was against the
"'And wouldn't want to spend Turks-disappeared from Egypt and ed here yesterday from the m. v. Permanent Under-Secretary of husband preceded her back to every dance.'.
State for the Colonies, who, it is the Colony à few months ago..
the whole evening in the supper was seen in Palestine and Truns-Terukuni Maru from Shanghai.
room.' Jordan.
History of Uprising.
In the middle of May there was
a general movement of the Howietat and Billi tribes from Egypt, Fales-; tine and Trans-Jordan, and some two hundred of them moved down the Wadi Araba from Beersheba to the head of the Galf of Akaba, while another two hundred trekked across Sinai.
Secret Movement.
The movement was carried out secretly, the tribesmen travelled as! ordinary merchants, and, as in the spring and autumn large parties of nomad Beduin normally trek from their winter grazing areas to glean or sow their rain-crop barley, the exodus aroused no suspicion.
The various parties assembled on May 20 on the shore of the Gulf of Akaba at the well of Gharandel and, that night marched across the nar- row corridor of Trans-Jordan ter ritory into the Hedjaz. Here they were met by others of the tribes; rifles and ammunition were issued, and the whole party moved south-j wards.
The ledjaz, like the rest of the world, has been suffering from the economic depression, one of the re sults of which has been the very! great falling off in the number of pilgrims who visit Mecca every year. The Arabs of the Jeddah, Mecca, and Medina areas exist very largely on the profits made from these pilgrims, and this year the shortage of money became acute.
The financial depression was, ag gravated by the drought which has afflicted the northern Hediaz during the last two years, and as the Arab, like the Irishman, is naturally ""ngin the Govertiment," and blames it for all his misfortunes. the time seemed rive for rebellion. The Beduin of the northern Hedjaz have from the]
Personal Pars.
Was
among
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"'Bravo!" cried one of the others, clapping her hands, 'what a capítul idea!'
"What's a capital idea?' they asked.
"Why, a clockwork dancer, or, better still, one that would go by
electricity and never run down.
"The girls took up the idea with enthusiasm.
"Why, with a phonograph inside him to grind out all the stock re- marks, you'would not be able to tell him from a real man,' said the girl' who had fizet saggested the idea.
"Oh yes, you would,' said the thin girl, he would be so much nicer.'
'Old Geibel had laid down his paper and was listening with both) his ears. On one of the girls gun- etny in his direction, however, he hurriedly hid himself again behind
it.
"After the girls were gone, he' went into his workshop.
where
then
а
Olga heard him walking up and down, and every now and chuckling to himself; and that
to her night be talked
dancing and good deal about dancing men-asked what they did what Rald and usually dances were most popular- what steps were gone through, with many other questions bearing on the subject.
"Then for a couple of weeks he kept much to his factory, and was; very thoughtful and busy, though prone at unexpected moments, to break into a quiet low laugh, as if enjoying a joke that nobody else knew of.
"A month later another ball took! place in Furtwangen. On this oc- caalon it was given by old Wenzel, the wealthy timber merchant, to celebrate his niece's betrothal, and' Gelbel and his daughter were again among the invited.
"When the hour arrived to. set Not out, Olga sought her father. finding him in the house, she tap ped at the door of his workshop. He appeared in his shirt-sleeves, looking hot but radiant
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