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`WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1933,
King of Arabia laterviewed-II -
KING IBN SAUD'S CONQUESTS
ARABIA MUST BE FREE FROM FOREIGN CONTROL
By Captain Harold G. Armstrong,
Author of "Grey Wolf," Mustapha Kemal's Biography..
atled King of Hejaz." I asked in ar- some trepidation, but he took no offence, only settled himself more comfortably on the high divan.
He made
My interview with Ibn Saud his palace near Jidda was, da The comment is very friendly. (ranged, resumed next day. There New scholars, who are recommend-was but a minimum of formulity, ed to take up rowing as the one and none of the pleasantly elaborate sport in which a German can hope th excel, are
warned that the but time-eating courtesies English undergraduate is not such East.
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be.
A fool as he makes himself out to
Calling a Jones
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He answered simply. no attempt to justify his action by
the some specious argument such as that the people of Hejaz had elected him -se some of his apologists have
The King, as is his habit, had done.
been working since long before
"It was this way it happened,” he The guide contains, too, a rather dawn, and despite the tremendous aid. "After the capture of Mecca, I called together representatives for sketch of synical thumbnail
the heat, would work most of the day all Islam to decide on the future of various colleges.
and evening.
the Rejaz and the Holy Cities. Trinity and "Univ" are listed as
He worked continuously and slept Very soon I realised that, though the most friendly to Germans. little, taking a short drive, or some- they came with many ideas to make Ballot is decribed as the hardest-times a picnic, as
the Hejaz into a republic, or an in- working college during the week, Almost before I had sat down and ternational State under the joint with orgies on Saturdays.
Here is the extract on Jesus College:
his
diversions.
sucked up a coffee he was asking for rule of all Moslems-the Indians had many such ideas-yet none could my next question.
I had been told that he hved guarantee the independence of the "Jesus is the Welsh College. closely guarded and in constant feur
Hejaz If you call out Jones' in the quad. of assassination. When I mention-
Conquest of Mecca 70 windows open. The others ed this to Ibn Saud he was amused "The Indians were under English abelter nothing but Lloyda). If and shrugged his huge shoulders, control, the Syrians under French, you call out, Jones with the red it certainly did not worry him, and and so on.
Thus the control of the hair, only 45 heads appear. But men of all sorts and conditions came Holy Cities would have been by for- if you call out. Jones with the and went in the Audience Room eign Christian nations through tooth-brush. then only one win-quite freely.
their subjects. dow opens,"
Moreover, he dealt with all man-! "I alone, was completely indepen- A final chapter on shops advises ner of men face to face, ministers, dent. I alone had conquered by God Germans to buy all their clothes, sheiks, governors, townsmen, Tariff would make such improves ¦ shirts.
and and my own right arm and the boots. etc.. in England. bedouins from the desert who came loyalty of my people. I alone could ment impossible. Britain is This book, although still issued, was swaggering in and addressed hin: rule the Holy Land as a free State still, as the Chancellor of the written in pre Hitler days. MORRISS.-On October 31, 1933.
of Islam. It was my right and duty Exchequer reminded Hospital,
the Country at the
to be King." Shanghai, to Helen Janet (nee country last month, the first.
"To-day the world is materialist,"
said; "tany Hughes), wife of Gordon Mor-exporting country in the world.!
countries have and she is fully holding her Hollow Joke share of the volume of interna- A Treasury official states that self with formalities or hide behindį, Įtional trade, which has shrunk in the average pound note lasts less his kingship. İvalue to bui 34 per cent. of what: than a year. Laugh, confound you, his own judgment and his own per: Hejaz?"
гіям, в коп.
BIRTH
DEATH
Your Daily Smile
side.
LAUGH! IROZARIO: On Wednesday, it was as recently as 1929. A
November 1, 1933, in Shanghai, Bustamed rise in wholesale prices in the Drawing Room. Manuel Eduardo Rozario, aged 15 would soon but a different com-j years, dearly-beloved son of Irene plexion on these figures, and the Maria Lopes Rozario,
returns show a rise of 0.6 per icent. for the month, or 1.1 per
cent. compared with last
year. It is very small, but at least t is on the right side. Where such a rise is most needed is in Hong Kong. Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1933. the world prices of primary com-
The China Mail
Britain's Trade Improvement
There is now no excuse
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"See here, Abdul Aziz."
Ibn Saud's Birth
"I
Then the King was at his best separated Religion from the State.
lle made no attempt to cover Wall Islam be the foundation of all your government, both in the desert, Ibn Saud relied on the Persian Gulf, and here in the
sonality. All his work was done inj
"It will" he replied. public and open to criticists by, all' "But Islam is divided into many men. He handled each man direct sects, more even than the Prophet Far from her boy she, is sitting with anstinctive skill and tact. He With two muiden aunts at her rarely made a mistake, for he had ach with its own customs.
¡foretold. Many come to Mecca, They a phenomenal memory for details She scrowls at the socks she is and a great knowledge of his neo-sects have equal rights under your jare many iri Arabia itself. Will all knitting.
rule? If it is to be the rule of the He was undoubtedly not a typical Wahable alone, that is very stern: Arab of the desert, who, though it is rigid and unrelaxing, suitablə Aunt burnt dark, are sallow, rarely over for the desert, but can it adjust it- 5ft. Gin, and undersized. Whereas self to the conditions of this modern Two purl and one plain?" uska Ibn Saud was a foot talier, huge and materialistic world?" the 'girl. 'Her buy
įple.
And thinks of the love denied.
she's
"Tell me what's next, Maria,
lyre.
murmura, sweet ab
built, and bronze-skinned without any aallowness.
"I will tell you," he replied. "All rule is based on the Koran and the- fercely accepted writings. These do not They do not op-
The desert Arabs are " thing it's two plain-and one proud of the purity of their ped-forbid progresa.
pearl."
Of sister Sue
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KER MISTAKE
We are bereft-
She wored her right
Hond then turned left!
grecs, so Ibn Saud's enemies said pose machinery, aeroplanes, motor- that he was not pure Arab, but mix-cara, wireless, or any normal deve ed with Georgian or Circassian.lopment.
They pointed out that his father,
modities. That would be follow- ed by an immediate bound for- ward in trade, as the primary producers once more appeared as buyers. Mr. Runciman's timely for coniments at St. Ives will con- despondency or even for doubt firm the prevailing optimism. with regard to trade improve. The President of the Board of
Britain
Wus ment, Trude has improved and Trade said that
"regaining bit by bit her uld is improving, and it will continue
position," and he specially claim- Now a Nudist to improve steadily if it is allow-jed as an
achievement without The man who always refused to women. His mother, Sarah, the ed free scope. The' turn has parallel in the history of modern dress above his income. come, and it should be welcomed industrin! countries that the with enthusiasm, and those who cost of living remained very
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The Cockney film director who
Abdur Rahman, had foreign wives.
I made many inquiries, and even
(Continued on Page 11.)
asited Ibn Saud himself, who, to my ENGLISH LANGUAGE
surprise, replied freely, though as a
rule Moslema talk rarely of their
EXCITING
jdaughter of Ahmed Sudafri of Secrets Of Noel Coward's
Ghup, was a woman of the Dawasir tribe, and of pure Arab stock.
Also there were no other gianta in his family. His father was short and thickset. His brothers andi Prince Abdullah were typical Araos.)
New Play.
YVONNE PRINTEMPS INTERVIEWED
have been holding back from much the same as when the surrounds himself with yusmen. trade enterprise for whatever National Government took office.
As a result of his recently con-Intelligence Department cluded Trade Agreements with "The modern girl won't put up It seemed that he was an Isolatad with a brainless fance for long" phenomenon, thrown up as Musso-
Paris states an article. A fool and his in and Hitler have been thrown charming French actress, has re- Mlle. Yvonne Printemps, the honey are soon parted.
up, and unexplainable by any lawvealed some of the secrets of the of heredity.
sources.
the Scandinavian countries
Д
The Caliphate
·
reason in order to make sure that. the revival was not a mere flash | in the pan should now take heart marked improvement has taken ||and go forward. The prelimin place on the North-East Coast,
ary figures of the September and more men are now in em- Notts So Bad.
(new play which Mr. Noel Coward in. Trade Returns abundantly com-¡ployment in Scotland than for Notts Beekeepers' Association re
writing for her, in an Interview Arm the evidence already some years past. But if he has ports that discese among bees has
with Reuter, As the King waited expectant, 1 supplied from other
made the markets of Northern dropped to 4 per cent.
She is to appear in the play in wasted no time in asking my ques-London early next year... Europe secure for British coal the improving railway the amount such as
tions. of coal sold is
OUR RULERS
Looking tanned and happy after: A novelist says that women ruled
"When your Majesty in 1924 had her holiday, Mile. Printemps said: traffics and the steady rise in the lamentably small compared with the world 2,000 years before the conquered Medina and Mecca and "Yes I am learning English. I figures of employment, which are what was considered normal ten dawn of the Christian ers, And,
chased out Husein, the Hashimite. have a professor in every moralog, 660,000 better than a year ago, years ago. The reason for that, of course, one thousand nine hun-did not many urge you to become but it is terrible. I forget it, all the Exports for September show an however, lles' not with him, but dred and thirty-three years after a Mahdi and lead the Moslems to moment he goes.
a new Holy War, or to become increase of £1,200,000 over those with prevailing trade conditiona. It,
"However, I am going to London of August and £6,000,000 higher Government Intend to carry out Mr. Runciman said that the
Caliph? You had the qualifications. two months before the date of pro- You were an independent Sovereignduction to grapple with the langu than last year, and the increase their polky of bargaining and
able to protect your people against age which Shakespeare spoke so comes under the head of wholly insisting on a fair quid pró quo,
foreign attack, and you were the easily, guardian of the Holy Cities."
"Since the heroine of the play is or mainly manufactured articles as far as they can, and he Italians are experimenting with "Harken," he replied, "these fana Frenchwoman trying to learn a welcome sign. There was promised to turn his attention to the use of hemp stalks for the tastes and superstitions such as English, and always getting into an ingrene in imports as com-steel as soon as he has concluded manufacture of cellulose for the Mahdia and whatnots! In these we awkward situations by the awful pared with August, "due to larger
his negotiations with Japan with rayon industry.
have no part,
things she says quite innocently, my "As to the Caliph. The time for performance promises to be the respect to cotton. The result of purchases of food, drink and
the latter is awaited with some tains a reservoir into which tions. I am a simple preacher of given.
A naw garment, receptacle con- such is not now, I have no ambi-most startlingly lifelike I have over tobacco. These figures are of anxiety, because in this case liquid can be poured to generate the simple True Religion. God has "What an exciting language you, the kind which should give un-political considerations cannot be moth killing vapor.. alloyed satisfaction. They show, wholly dissociated from econo-
Facts You Did Not Know
.
In conjunction with the employ. mic. Lancashire, however," will More than 68 per cent, of New mont figures, that home pro welcome the President's assur Zealand's roads are hard surfaced, duction is improving and that the ace that he means to make a compared with 20 per cent, in the export trade is also doing con-
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lald on me the duty to convert by Jove with words,like,"rough", preaching, and may be if preach-cough', 'through' and 'brougham ing fails, by the sword. Beyond Mr. Coward is writing the most- that I have no ambition charming music and lyrics, which..1.. "An for the Holy Cities. I hold shall sing in English with recognss them as stoward for all Islam, to French when they become too--
"Yet, when your " Majesty i con-idiomatic,
quered Mecca you proclaimed that "Altogether I have alreads pla you would neither annex the Hela about 20 months in London, so I amu nor keep rale pear it, and yet with no stranger to in a few months you were proclaim audiences."--Reuter,
• Your, generous.