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The China' Mail
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HERE THERE
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EVERYWHERE
Diplomatic Art Rivalry,
The friendly
rivalry between
some of the foreign embassies in London in the matter of Interior
SATURDAY MAY 6, 1933,
THE MIGHTIEST ARAB SINCE MAHOMET
PERSIAN RULER IGNORES THE DEPRESSION
decoration that between the Unit HIS FIGHT FOR DESERT PEACE
ed States and Italy has been in the limelight of labe-finds its echo in Paris.
(By Kenneth Williams.)
There, embassy buildings rather than the art collections in them are King Abdul Aziz Ibq Saud, the over by sons of his defeated rival, of outstanding interest. Several Wahhabi master of Arabian lands the ex-King Hussein, King Feisul date from the eighteenth century, from the Persian Gulf to the Red being in Irak and the Emir Ab- are finely bailt, have many historical Sea. looks confidently to the future. dullah in Transjordan. For a time associations, and retain their early He is confident, even though the it was difficult to restrain his ralding the man- decorations and furniture.
pilgrimage to Mecca, now in pro-tirbesmen from This is particularly the case with gress, will this year. be probably the dated lands, but for many months there has been no serious the British Embassy, which was lowest in numbers of all during his now bold to the British Government by nine years' ownership of the Holy violation of the frontiers. Napoleon's sister, Pauline Borghese. Places of Arabia. In 1815, after she had decorated it in the purest Empira style."
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Lights To Save Millions.
Typical Arab.
Ibn Saud is a man of command- The Arab's capacity for "tighten- ing his belt" is one of his most ing stature and personality. Six striking qualities. And King Abdul feet four inches in height, and both Aziz says: "The world depressien muscular and well-proportioned, "he "The younger British scientists, will pass. Then the Faithful come towers physically as well as mental- thanks to facilities” given for labora-Jagain in their thousands, instead of ly over most of his subjects. He is tory research, are doing wonderful their present hundreds, to Mecca not what Westerners, Imagine to be
and Medina
ja "typical Arab," that is, he has things.
He is one of the most significant not a Semitic' physiognomy, though The latest triumph of a British
Arab complexion. His fnvestigator is claimed to be caps figures of the day-the mightiest he has an ble of saving millions in the cost of Arab, possibly, since the time of the face exudes decision and benignity."
His rise to An affliction of one eye has been alectric light, giving work to thou-Prophet Mahomet.
revolutionising. sands, and
the fame, unsuspected by all but a hand-treated by an American doctor from future of artificial illumination. The ful of. Nejdi Arabs and one or two the Persian Gulf coast.
He is a simple-minded monarch, well-known neop light used for percipient Englishmen (who did signs is coloured, and requires great not convince officials of the British with a single nim: that of con a romance un-secrating his vast dominions to the expenditure of electrical power. The Governmenti) is
purposes of Allah. An autocrat. new invention produces a white paralleled in our time.
He le now planning an agreement certainly, who would na soon dream light in a similar glass tube, but) works off the ordinary electric sup- of mutual recognition with the Emir of introducing parliamentary notions ply, and uses only a fraction of the Abdullah of Transjordan which will into his kingdom as he would power consumed by an ordinary bring peace to the desert at last-cinematographs, or any other kind filament lamp, thus making the cost the crowning triumph of his career, of Western invention wholly un- of lighting much lower. The light, Why it is a triumph will be made suited to the mentality of his
away by a certain date. They moreover, is more like daylight than clear in this story which I am now people! But, withal, he is always
There is no filament, but the gas
Much
accessible to the humblest of going to tell.. hurried to the coasts, leaving be any previous artificial light.
The post-war world has seen men Bedouin, always visible, often lead- hind their houses and property, all their bonds and mortgages in the tube will glow with a bright, climb some amazingly steep hills to ing his peoples as Imam in prayer. being cancelled. Out into the white light. It is probable that power. Cossack troopers have be caring not a lot for the more pomp With the justice he metes out and wilderness they went, seeking re-street and road lighting will be ac- come Shahs, Austrian bootmakers and circumstances of power.
Saud the power he exerts, Ibn Saud has fuge in France, Flanders, Spain, complished by continuous cathode German Chancellors. But none of The Jews.
and elsewhere. In Spain they tubes placed beneath the pavement, them has started, as Ibn suffered more than anywhere the tubes throwing a concealed light started, in exile and from nothing. brought the "Arabian Nights" back
At the turn of the century this again.
The Wahhabi King's life is free though the Nazi persecution under the ferocities of the In-straight on the road. This would
Sheikh of Kuwelt, a port on the from all complexity. The Koran is of the Jews in Germany appears quisition, yet Israel, endured, eliminate the need for car head-Arab existed only by grace of the
which his father the surpreme test of whether a thing to have abated in intensity, the Undimmed, the light of Zion lights and abolish shadows,'
The time will soon come when Persian Gulf to campaign of suppression is still shone before the chosen people,
in Arabla had been Anally destroy-not forbidden by the Koran thero being carried out, and the cables Ferdinand and Isabella ordered rooms in a house will be lighted had fled when the Wahhabi power is lawful or not. On that which is
ed by a rival dynasty-the Rashida exista considerable berty. during the week announcing the their expulsion-in-1492, and their entirely by unseen cathode-tubes. wholesale dismissal of Jewish plight was worse than before, as
of Hayil. But he was not willing misconception has been entertained to eat out his heart in a spot which on the nature of Wahhabism, which professors from their University they were outcasts from so many posts indicates that discrimina-countries that it was difficult to
thought mainly in terms of pearls is sometimes thought to be identical and sailing. He resolved to strike with the most intolerant Puritanism. tion is being ruthlessly con-obtain a resting-place. The 16th tinued. It is an unfortunate blot century was the period of the
Square holes can be bored in wood a blow, with however remote a Among a certain section of the more on the progress of the nations ghetto in Europe. the practice with an ordinary brace using a new chance of success, to regain the ignorant Bedouin that may be so, towards peace and goodwill that prevailing of confining them to triangular bit that is guided by a capital of his ancestors, Riyadh, in but King Abdul Aziz himself is far the heart of Nejd. How he actual- from being a bigot. For instance, events ir Germany should include special quarters in the cities, steel plate.
ly did so is the subject now of in the Hejaz Europeans can obtain an outbreak which in its essence where, under the close living. is a recrudescence of hatred and they deteriorated.
Nearly a quarter of a billion much spontaneous versification by both alcoholic drinks and tobacco. This King realises fully that the intolerance against a race that then cut off from the world. The dollars has been spent in residence Bedouin camp-fires.
stern rigours of the, Wahhabi creed has prevailed through the utmost Reformation brought no relief, construction in New Zealand in the
may have to be relaxed in certain. adversity for nearly twenty cen- Protestantism being as hostile as last ten years. turies. The story of the Jews is Catholicism. Practically all coun-
But, for all that, he rules Arabin
Israel was
Facts You Did Not Know.
The Night Attack Persuading the ruler of Kuweit directions..
one of the most remarkable in tries at some time received the Iodine is the active material used to give him a few camels, some food history. Without a country, op-wanderers, treated them as in a new storage battery having the and arms, he slipped out one day itself with a rod of iron, or, rather, pressed, despoiled, and tortured, pariahs, persecuted and expelled advantage that it does not emit accompanied by but a handful of with a complete, knowledge of the but ever unquenchable, the Jew them. King Edward's edict as dangerous. vapors.
Is the world's most romantic to England remained in force figure. He has clung to his for more than 500 years, never- To reduce the expense of main
the Brazilian state of ancient faith, resisted the bio-theless numbers settled there, tenance
as and though they gradually ob- Pernambuco has prohibited the use logical tendency towards his many racial characteristics not ill the 19th century that all
relatives and slaves, across the primitive character of its inhabit- castern deserts. Success seemed ants. His justice le swift and con- impossible. The Saudi family to dign.. If a man steal with his hand, which he belonged evoked now no let the offending member be cut off. loyal memories among the Bedouin, There needed not many such exi whose thoughts, if action were ask- amplas.
similation, and has maintained tained better conditions, it was of state highways by ex carta. ed of them, were of loot alone. "Cut Off His Nose."
as no other has done. He has disabilities were removed: In Thief proof locks have been in- survived to occupy some of the 1858, a Jew, obtained a seat in vented that can be attached to the highest positions in art, states the House of Commons, Lionel gasoline. tanks of almost all makes manship, finance, and science, Rothschild. Nathan Rothschild, of automobiles.
valued attainments of this earth. peerage in 1885. Relief came in
Personal Pars.
Both his father and the ruler of
harebrained an adventure.
Here is a story to illustrate Ibn Kuweit advised return from so Saud's imperious way. When be conquered the Hejaz, his frat care But Iba Saud would not return. was for the protection of the pil. Instead, he crept up to the very grims, who, as he knew, had prev
com-
and has displayed most of the his eldest son, was raised to the Argentine has levied a new tax outskirts of Riyadh and, stealing viously been fleeced on their way to
(Continued on Page 7). No barbarities of persecution Europe through Napoleon's con- on gasoline and lubricants for over its crumbling walls, gained and from the Holy Cities. could obliterate this immortal quests. The Jews were a use motors to increase fiz find for entrance, with about ten
panions, Into the Governor's house the, Governor having gone to sleep race, which has passed through ful factor in the development of highway construction.
at the fort, hundreds of years of travail, Europe, and form an intensely leaving a trail of blood and fears. interesting study. Away from
Locking the women, the only ooNORODY IS SPEECH cupants of the house, into one room, At times almost annihilated, it the hills and plains of Palestine
PERFECT. has emerged finally in greater where they tilled the soil and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Bell arrived and threatening them with death strength. Jewish history goes tended their flocks, they became in the Colony from Yokohama by should they break ailence, the ad back to the dim past, when the a landless people. They had the P. & Oss. Ranchi yesterday, venturers walted till dawa, sharpen
ing their resolve with recitations of nations of Europe were unborn, periods when they were prospér Hebrew story runs through the ous and powerful in several coun- Mr. J. Struth was a passenger the Koran, Old Testament. It is part of the tries, and they cultivated the on the s.8. Ranchi which arrived history of Rome. It is written arts and crafts as they settled in the Colony yesterday.
in blood through the Middle in different parta. An evolu
As day broke and the Governor and, his attendants came across the square courtyard of the fort, Ibn
Tests Prove That All Stutter.
Chicago, Illinois. Here's cheer for stutterers! Professor Bills of the University
Ages. It is still unfinished. The tionary process went on. Often Mr. A. Button, Mr. H. Gregory, Baud and his band rushed and Jews establishell monotheism by the severities of their oppres Mr. S. J. Hales and Mr. F. A. Merry killed them. The fort was now of Chicago psychological depart when the rest of the peoples were sors the Jews were excluded from arrived from Shanghal yesterday Ibn Saud's hands. The Rashidi ment says that a series of tests have convinced him that almost garrison quickly, surrendered, and a immersed in a varied and loose the practice of the ordinary call by the s.. Ranchi.
everybody stammers, Saudi was once more proclaimed when the pubile speaker pauses polythicistic worship. By the endings and occupations, and were det
of the third century, after being compelled by force of circum Mr. and Mrs. E, G. Renton and Emir scattered to the winds by the stances to concentrate on the only Mr. R. L. Wille were also passen. So began the rule of King Abdul in his address and saya" "A", he's Just stuttering," said Professor Roman conquest, they had spread thing available, usury; for, gers from Shanghai by the Ranchi Aziz. And from that day he has Bills he didn't do it. he'd from Illyria in the East to Spain despite the injustices and abuses,
stumble over the next word.”
never looked back.
person-one not addicted to drag-
in the West, and to Gaul and the they accumulated wealth which Mrs. B. T. Massey, mother of Arabs are wont to worship as The more fatigued the normal Bhine in the North. The history the fighting monarche and lords "Brian" P. Massey, a former cap cess, and Ion-Baud's boldness im- of mediaeval Europe is sprinkled were glad to borrow from them. tain of rugby in Hong Kong, la pressed the Bedouin. By steadying out his words in numerous with accounts of massacre and Out of that developed the genius through passenger from Shanghal steps he increased his hold on syllables the oftenor he pauses. harsh treatment, The great for finance for which they are by the B. Raucht f crusade trek across Europe in the tamed, and the presence of many
Arabix He drove the Turks out bi
eastern Arabía. In 1918, captured aid Professor Bills, wake of Peter the Hermit, hold eminent Jewish financiers in Bri-tion that, in the changes that the dynasty which had overthrown ing aloft the banner of the Cross, tain has possibly contributed are now disturbing civilisation, his own, the Rashid dynasty of let loose a rabble that plundered considerably to the position Eng. there should still exist the spirit Hayll, In 1921, and consummated and slaughtered the Jews land holds to-day of supremacy of the malevolence of old. A re- these victories by sweeping over the
vival of such persecution is an Heise. In 1924-28 wherever they were to be found in han
[how] unhappy circumstance, the more He
In England they were permitted, to live for a couple of hundred sprinkle years, but paying dearly, for the branch privilege the expulsion in 1290 Arp Am by Edward L being complete and
all Jews being ordered Lara
the s
in from sea to sea,
Jewish race (abloťrivals
much to of the Yemen in the sou wadan Is the case, the mag
thei
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