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HERE, THERE
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The Bechuanaland Trouble
The recent suspension of Chief
Tshekedi came as no surprise to
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1933,
CROMWELL OF THE
DESERT
IRON RULE OF KING
IBN SA'UD
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those in touch with native affaire. ROMANTIC RISE OF MINOR CHIEF
Trouble has been looming over Bechuanaland for years.
The Bechuanas in the past.en- joyed a much larger measure of in- dependence than most native races
(By Howard Spring.)
News has come from Arabis constrong arm of surprise, they slew in South Africa, and until two cerning a threatened clash between the Governor, conquered the fort, years ago their chiefs exercised all King Ibu Sa'ad and the Imam Yahya and so held the town. The Sa'udis Governmental functions not speci- who rules the Yemen.
again were
of Riyadh.
masters
scally reserved to the Crown. A Ibn Sa'ad's dominion is immense. That was the focal point from which succession of Incompetent chiefs it stretches across the great Ara-Ibn Saud, in the course of thirty forced the Colonial Office to issue abian peninsula, that arid, blunt-end-years, levered his great state into proclamation in 1931 which de-led wedge of land that is driven being. This is no place to detail the fined and curtailed their powers. from the Indian Ocean right up to steps, admirably set out by Mr. An agitation against these neces- the Mediterranean Sea. It touches Williams, by which he subdued sary restrictions has been carried on the East the Persian Gulf and enemy after enemy, till from thet Jon by the tribes ever since.
on the North the Kingdom of Irak central point in the desert his do- Tshekedi and Lord Passifield and the manufactured state called minion extended from sea to sea. Tahekedi himself is technically Transjordan. On the West at in- Regent of the Bamangwato, the pinges on the Red Sea. largest tribe in Bechuanaland.
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the Lovedale Institute, Capetown. embraced the Yemen.
Not A Permanent National
The most interesting question
that arises from the whole story is: What can Ibn Sa'ad do with the
Can anything
King
In
Tho
When the green flag of Ibn Sa'ud's ng sunda? land to give evidence in the Char-hard-fighting Arabs was planted not Mr. Williams will commit himself tered Company's unsuccessful many years ago over the Hefaz, the 'to no answer. Believing that "the claim before the Privy Council for strip of Arabia that contains the impress which this Puritan a continuance of their concession Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina, has made on the Peninsula is in all In Bechuanaland.
this Cromwell of the desert found probability deeper than that made Lord Passfeld, who was Colonial himself master of a land Bowing. by any single man since the Pro- Secretary at the time, was strong along Arabia's western seaboard, phet," he nevertheless rather sadly ly opposed to Teheked!'s visit, it south with the Red Sea.
admit that "none but the enthusiast being contrary to precedent for South for a long way.
But the will use the word 'permanent' native chief to leave his own coun- most southerly strip of all, the ex-connection with Arabia." try; but during the chief's visit treme south-western strip of the
Much in against success.
in the system
peninsula, is the Yemen: and be poverty of a land which depends for of trade treaties they became friends. now being built up in relation
tween the Yemen and Ibn Sa'ud's is economic health of pearls, canela
all of with
selanch the Ottawa framework.
latest conquered land is the terri- and pligrimages, Hong Kong, Friday, October 13, 1933. The British Empire can afford
tory known as Asir. It is concern threaten to slump, has exercised the 1o welcome kindred nations to
ing Asir that news now comes out King's mind. He has tried to make the wilderness blossom, to turn the reciprocal trade. The larger the Now You Know
of Arabia.
the ocen- group, the greater the advan- can eat nearly as much as a small cult to deane. Asir is virtually, by Sonal oasis into
Frontiers in the desert are diff-Bedouin into a farmer,
01 agricultural tapes of the commercial bond. A glutton is a grown man who It is in Britain's power, as Sir boy.
treaty, a protectorate of Ibn Sa'ud's; settlement. But it is not easy to encroachments from the Yemen have bind men to the earth with ropes Afan Anderson puts it, to "pro-
Icaused trouble more than once of sand.
The rain fails; the raid begins: Students of Arabian affairs Professor's wife: "Here is a re-watch with interest the next moves and how can you build a permanent of the Arabian King who has shown "tute out of raiding elements? Busy professor: "Is that
Freer Trade On The Ottawa Model.
Facts You Did Not Know.
A very thoughtful and prac tical lend was given by Sir Alan mote a club for reciprocal trade"; Yet Another Anderson to the discussions of a club with wide membership.
main-
will
307 genius in obtaining much by diplo. That has always been the root of the
macy and ruthlessness in securing Arabian problem. the rest by the sword.
B
the Association of British Cham-with the exchange of goods and port of you death in the paper." bers of Commerce at the autumn services as its purpose, meeting in Glasgow. He took taining stable prices and cur- We must remember to send for the text of his presidential rency-exchange rates between the wreath." address the question that is in members through the combined action of its central banks. This ithe leading minds of every
national trading community last feature of the conception, it To vrr in human-to keep it quiet "What to do next?" It is asked is to be noted, has already been is not.
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MODERN PROVERBS.
with particular reference to the accepted in principle by the The early bird has to get his own failure three months ago of the British and Dominion Govern- breakfast.
Meteoric Rise
So there is something pathetic as
well as magnificent about this man whose genius, applied elsewhere,
Not a man to tamper with lightly might have created empires, applied In Ibn Sa'ud. Out of Arabia have in Arabia may create a fabric shim- Lo the mering with the delusive splendour world: a grand collection of romanof mirage.
come two starting gifts
tic talee and a pungent realist reli-į Jhn Sa'ud, dashing from Mewn to In Ibn Saud Meccs meets Riyadh in a modern car, in touch
World Monetary and Economic ments in the declaration issued, The ideal wife in something else's. Conference. Sir Alan Anderson jointly by them on the conclu-|Try to understand a woman and you glon. does not conceal the fact that he,sion of the Conference; "the ad- will only succeed in marrying Bagdad. The tale of his rise from, with his great kingdom by wireless like most men occupying posi-herence of other countries to a
her.
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strange to And
The truth cannot be slander, Such very proper geese mixed
With such Impropaganda.
Golfer
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at
nothing to chieftainship, from being sets on lorries, may well prove ta
over much, from being a Sultan to marvels of architecture in the sand being a King, is as romantic as any on seashore whose tide is rising. of the tales of a Thousand and One) It is on the cards that the sun of Nights; but the impulse that push-no distant morning will look down ed him on has been Wahabism; and to find all in flux again. Wahabism is Islam in its starkest,
most uncompromising form.
up
The story of that rise in told in "Ibn Sa'ud, the Puritan King off
FUTURE OF S. S. LEVIATHAN
Arabia," published by Jonathan Cape (88. 6d.).. The author is Mr.)
tions such as his in the business policy on similar lines" was then Give a single man sufficient rode and a chief over little to being a Sultan 'be bke a brilliant child executing world, believed that failure taldeclared to be desirable for the he'll start selling it. be inevitable. Conditions were extending of the area of ex- fatally unfavourable to the pur-change stability. The more com-All-in Politics pose of uniting all nations in prehensive plan of economic co- It's rather recognition of what he calls "the operation to which Sir Alan times principle of live and let live, of Anderson looks forward is in the] buying in order to sell . of air. The more the logic of it is trade as it was once and must studied, the more plainly will it be again before we prosper." be seen that the opportunity is But he observes thai no very open for the Empire nations not dramatic disaster has followed only to overcome their own One who takes the turf out of Kenneth Williams. on the adjournment sine die of troubles, but "to bring to the greens and the "u" out of course, the Conference with nothing world just the help it needs, and done. On the contrary, he notes may now welcome." the, continuance of the signs of Improvement given by Britain's¦ economic barometer, although he considers it too early for any feeling of confidence that the
in demonstration of the practical storm has passed. The broadest
of selence поде uses
of the view that can be taken of the speakers at the British Association Conference in retrospect. is that have put in a claim of more general
Human Geography.
hardest.
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Your Daily Smile
Ancestry playa its part, as it does May Rival New Express
Liners In 1934.
NOW IDLE IN HUDSON RIVER
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in most stories. It was the Sheik Fashion Note
Abdul Ibn Wahab who, in the The bare-back bathing costume eighteenth century, sought to purge mode makes some girls look their Islam of its excesses, demanding a best. And some men look their return to primitive use, to "Funda- mentalism." When this Abdul Wahab's daughter married a mem- ber of the Sa'udi family Wahabism The prospect of a merger of the had found its sword; and in the White Star and Cunard steamship reported in London has Argentina has prohibited the im- following century the sword was ines it proved the impossibility of interest, than Lord Meston with portation of oranges between July used indeed when the Wahabis brought the Leviathan back into the bringing into unity so many as his argument for the study of "hu-1 and October 31 in each year.
tasted the heady wine of success, conversation of shipping-men. The sixty-four natons with different man geography." His definition of
slaughtered up and down. Arabia, ship remains idle In the Hudson interests and at different levels that still unfamiliar department of of economie development.
All the drawers of a new kitchen and treated the Holy Cities as Crom-River, the Shipping Board having science is the investigation of the cabinet are made of glass to reveal well's Ironsides treated the "dola-permitted the United States Lines nothing to be learned from such relations between man and natural their contents and be easily cleaned, tries" of Romish churches.
o, withdraw her from service for Ja negative, if not very surpris-conditions. For its motto he took
the rest of the year, ing, result? In the alternative the maxim that the soil influences
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Phonograph recorda of soothing
Conquered Fort With 10 Men The plans for the ship lơ 1984
That is the stock-Puritan fight-remain an uncertainty, however,
of an intensified economie na- the soul and the soul the soil. This music or speech are being used in] tionalism there is no prospect is not a fantastic theory. The old Paris to treat mental and some ing stock-from which Ibn Saud is and if the agency of the White Star but that of a relapse of modern example that mountainous tracts other illnesseE. civilisation, through a long pro-are likely to be the home of hardy, | ------- cess of misery, to a level of combative races, tenacious of free-
sprung. When you first meet him Line in the United States is taken the power of his house is crushed. away from the Roosevelt: "Inter- The House of Rashid rules in national Mercantile Marine Com-
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existence that was put behind us dom, individual and national, is cumstances of Australia, which the Riyadh, whence the Saudis have pany by the Cunard merger it is centuries ago. The real lesson well established. Britain's power the British race has found so kind- been expelled. Living in exile at probable, according to slipping of the Conference was stated by in the world is clearly the product (ly, had produced before the white Kuwait, on the Persian Gulf, a hand-men, that the Leviathan will return more than one of its leading of the geographical status of her man came nothing better than a some giant of six-foot-four, luna an active rival of the Majestic, figures, and re-stated by students inland home, with its singular ad- race of the meanest endowment. Ba'ud was 20 when the present cen- Bremen, Europa, Ile de France, of economie tendencies outside vantages of a key position for sea. From these contradictory examples tury dawned, a subordinate general, Rex, and other express Hiners. the Conference. It is proclaimed borne trade combined with re- the true deduction seems to be that commanding a small force for the There is no expresa liner in the again, with the support of a tell-sources in coal and fron which while geographical influences are Sheik under whose protection he North Atlantic service now flying ing array of commercial facts fostered early" industrial develop-potent, they are not the only far-lived.
the Amèrican flag. and statistics, by Sir Alan ment. There are fanciful students for in the making of nation", and One day he said: "I will recap- The United States Lines, which is Anderson. The next step, he who profess to believe that life in race. Hera is the chief task of ture Ilyadh, Inshallah !" "(Godfowned in part by the L.M.M., was withdrawing the argues, aliould be the drawing the conditions of North America is "human geography," in estimating willing). He marched into the de- criticized for together of groups of nations be already modifying the people of how the forces of Nature and the sert with a small force, left most Leviathan last Spring by spokesmen tween whose, trading Interests a European race, who new inhabit it power of man with the equipment of them in ambush outside Riyadh; (of American seamen and proponents real and fruitful accommodation with some facial resemblance to of modern Industry will act on climbered over the town walls in the of a more active American, mer- la possible; and he points out the Rad Indians, their predecessors, each other, and what they will dark with but 10 men concealed chant marine. The Untied States that the British Empire, not for But if geography were" all in all make pf, the world's future. Is it himself in a house overlooking the Lines proved, however, that the ship the first time, is showing the the Red Indians should have de- to be possible for nations, for fort, and spent the night in prayer, was auch an expense that she could world the way out of its troubles. veloped into race of something races, to change their character? When the gates of the fort open-not be continued in operation. The Progress: may: To slow but the comparable to the enterprise and Will the next stage ip the developed in the morning, Ibn Saud and Shipping Board permitted the with root of the matter is in, Head, he inventive versatility of the modern mant of the earth alter the balance his men were really, Grotesquely drawal as a measure of economy Ottawa Agreements, and, second, American, 1 The geographical" "sire of civilisation?®,
loutnumbered, but smiting with the despite the opp [tion-Reuter.