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ARABS' VITAL PART
IN THE
Tboth in extent and do- THE Arab-speaking world,
WAR
cognised as on Independentally of the British Empire,
The importance of Iraq to the Empire is two-fold; it is an essential land and air bridge in our system of Imperial comununications castward, but he had the consolation of and it provides an admirable oil sup living to sae Faisal, his second ply.
FACTS ABOUT OIL A now factor is entering the son, after being expelled by the minions, though not in popula- tion, comes perhaps third, if not war-the Arab world. As avents French from Damascus, become great pipe-line, in shape like un Irregular "y" laid on its side, second, to the English-speaking develop in Iraq, Syria, and elso- King of Iraq, and Abdullah, his starts from the oil uplands near world, its possible rival in this where, the attitudo of the Arabs third son, Amir of Transjor- Kirkuk.
to the British cauto becomɑs in- dan.
Near Haditha, on the Euphrates, respect being that of Spain.
The magnificent, but distract creasingly important. This article His conqueror, King Ibn Sa- the elem branches into the northern or " Bine, going to French-mandated ud, a potentate in every sense Tripoll, in Syria (called by the Arabs of the word and a loyal friend Carabulus al-Sham-Eastern Tripoll of Britain, is by far the greatest to distinguish it from Carabulus personality in the purely Arab al-Gharb, or Western Telpoli); and world.
He proceeded to unite theoy this Y on a map of the Beltin Hejaz with Nejd under the title isle o on the same scale, and it will of Saudi-Arabia.
start from John o' Groats
ingly difficult, Arabic language is spoken, written, and read along the whole of North Africa, southward into the Su- dan well beyond Khartum, throughout the vast peninsula of Arabia, the cradle of the Arab race, throughout Pales-- tine, Syria, and in Iraq.
It is thus the current vehicle of thought from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf, and will often serve the traveller be- yond the frontiers of Iran and up to the very confines of In- din:
But since this unity was achieved by the victorious mis- sionaries of the Prophet Mo- hammed, with the sword in. their right hand and the Koran in their left, over a variety of races, which have to a certain extent maintained the original. characteristics of their blood, it is unity of language and re-
Hongkong Telegraph.ligion rather than of nation.
Tuesday, Sept. 2, 1941:
Wyndham St., Hongkong Telephone: 30015
TUE prefix "Special to the Telegraph" is ward by the "Hongkong Telegraph" to Indicate nows which is strictly copyrigist under the provisions or the Telecommuni- rations Ordinance. 1938, Such news as hears the Indication "Up" is received in
And even this unity of langu- nge is not to be compared with the English-speaking union; för whereas written Arable is in- variable, and can therefore be understood anywhere (by such
By Sir RONALD STORRS
Arab worlds as can read), spoken Arabic dif- analyses tho fers so greatly, both in, pronun- structure, its personalities, its ciation and vocabulary, that & aims, and its history since Law Morroccan and an Egyptian can rence welded its warriors into a Hongkons on the date of publications by hardly maintain simple conver- powerful ally for Britain.
sation.
the United Press Associations, who re- serve all rights and forbid republications, either wholly or in part without previous arrangement,
WISE COUNSEL NEEDED ··
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Engher ed
fork at Though he did not at first Berwick-on-Tweed, with the arm And it easy to impose on the ruins through Lancashire, Che- the Welsh border and the slure, Hejazis pleasure-loving
the Bristol Channel, to Land's End, and drastic renunciations of Wah- the other through the Lake Country habian whereby not only alco and across the Irish Chunnet to hol and tobacco but even coffee Cork harbour. are prohibited, he has
The system les across bare de- duced order and method (court, with pumping stations at inter- The Tripoll branch is not at pre- pled with a most undictatorin vale of about 70 miles. democratic freedom of speech) rent working, so that even it the to a degree hitherto unknown Axis-bought rebels were able to deny all to Britain by actually ex- in that vast wilderness.
from Iraq they pelling our force would not thereby be making à pre-
MISTAKES
intro-
of
TWO ALLIES
PERSONALITIES
form
of
of
A
LL these Arab countries-Egypt,
PALESTINE is administered sent of it to Germany, for the pipe-
by Great Britain under lins could be cut. League mandate.
Grave mistakes have been TRAQs, like Egypt, under a limited committed there by the Govern In the premature, demise of its first 1 monarchy. It was unfortunate ment as well as by the governed, King, the proud and statesmanlike but the mutual hostilities of Jew Faisal the First; and even more so
of and Arab have been greatly in the person hls successor (killed diminished by common horror in a motor accident). The present of Axis methods and both are King. Falsal the Second, is on infant
under a Regency. now fighting side by side in the The 3,000,000 Iroqls are 34 per ranks of freedom.
cent. more Shia than Sunni,
been the Team-work has never Transjordan, under the man- date, but outside the operation strongest Arab suit, and under a of Zionism, is ruled by the loyal constitutional Western Amir Abdullah, the aforesaid government the outs are apt to de- velop the worst symptoms of Have- son of the late King Husain of not New Order-lles elsewhere.
When
attacked Iraq's British the Hejaz and unclo of the
expel the Again, the religious unity is
Fascist Minister and his intrigues sharply divided, the majority ous fertile mountain territory young Amir Abd al-llah, Regent ally Baghdad failed to
found fertile soil in Army malcon- belonging to the Sunni persua. of Yemen, so called because it of Iraq.
Syria, their northern neigh tents, notably the Big Four of dis- Installed the sion of Islam-corresponding is on the right hand-Yamin-
under the mandate of France; quisling Rashid al-Gallani. roughly to Protestantism in of the believer as he prays to- bour, has known uneasy days loyal colonels, who
two firm allies in the We have Christianity the Morroccans Wards Mecca.
Shaikh and the Iraq tribesmen (but not
The Yemen is ruled by the which can count with certainty Guff. The independent
("Two Sens"-because It being Shia Imam Yahya, a dictator whose upon the fidelity of the Christi- Bahrain
Gulf and the their townsfolk) which more resembles Roman sympathies if he may be said an Maronite sect in the Leban- faces to the Persian
lims, the Druses and other com- trade of half a million a year; and Catholicism, and the Arabs of to cherish any are decidedly on, but hardly upon the Mus- Indian Ocean), permanent G.H.Q.
the Guir
Gulf pearl fisherles, with n SONS ARE RULERS munities of whom the majority tha Shaikh of Kuwait ("Little and what methods to attain that austere Puritanism of the Wah-
Fort," the diminutive of Kut).
ut). of Turkey, habi sect.
NORTH Arabia is divided into is composed.
Syrians, particularly in the the surrounding; countries. policy they wish the representa-
These three divisions, have the Hojaz on the West, and
coastal regions, are of mixed Iran, and Afghanistan, linked to tion
1937 Peace Pact of committee to
Iraq by the pursue. about as much use for each the Nejd on the East,
From the Hejaz, with its and fur from pure Arab stock, gadabad, are disconcerted by this other as had the more extreme Until this is done there is
They are a commercial, intel- weakening of their united front to acetaries of the different Chris- sacred cities, Mecca and Medina Jistinct danger of the husbands'
tian Churches at the time of the (respectively the birthplace and ligent people whose lack of ba- the cominon aggressors. cause being represented by 1 Reformation.
the burial place of the prophet lance has not been remedied by Muhammad) sprang the great their heavy doses of European
·GRAZIANI · ATROCITIES
education. minority section of opinion
the Hejaz, Palestine, Syria, and religion of Islam.
Iraq-owe their freedom from Ot- STORY OF "MESPOT" which will clash with the desires TRAVELLING to-day
The Hejaz and, indeed, all
teman domination to Great Britain; brief personally conducted of the majority.
tour through these regions, we Arabis save Aden, formed at LAST, but foremast in the news three of them-Egypt, the Hejoz, and
comes the Iraq, Arabic term for Iraq-have received from
Great This thought is suggested by find the whole of the west in the beginning of the last war what the fine old lady called "the Britain
Independence an absolute blessed name of Mesopotamia," which
which neither Nazism nur Fos the fact that the non-confidence one gigantic bloc under French part of the Ottoman Empire.
The Hejaz was then ruled by is the Greek for the "mid-river land" vote passed at last week's meet- domination. Morrocco, a pro- the Grand Sherif-afterwards lying between the Tigris and the cism is likely to improve.
There are those who believe that tectorate with a nominal sultan
things need not have reached this ng was hardly a representative under the governor-general; King-Husain as hereditary Ot- Euphrates.
Its capital is Baghdad, situated o had there been fewer and less Tigris some 30 miles from the rapid changes, of British representa- one in that only 214 votes were Algiers, an integral part of toman Governor.
When Turkey attacked us
ruins of the Tower of Babel, and not tives in Baghdad. France of which it forms two Husain formed a military pact much farther from those of the an The East is influenced by persona- cast out of an estimated attend-
departments, a nd Tunisia, with the Allies.
cient city of Babylon by the Euph-lities and the sympathy that comes anco of close on 600. This again a protectorate under a The Arab "Revolt in the De- rates
with close knowlediga. would indicate that
The confluence of those two famous Ambassadors to Enstern, Powers some
The Italian colony of Libya, sert" was
Shatt-al-Arab. пя
changeable
of ports
motor-cars, hundreds of men were neither divided into Tripolitania and Lawrence's legendary exploits, rivers into the Persian Gulf is known are not like the standardised Inter-
On this lies Basra, the port <if
serviceable in Madrid, Co- atisfied that a new committee Cyrenaica, was wrested from culminating in Allenby's deci
Iraq, capable of receiving oceanor Rio de Janeiro. was desirable nor that the old
concern to ing life of Sir Percy Cox-still re- committee wero fulfilling their is vast in area, of what Lord acumen of King Husain deteri- factor of interest and
Salisbury used to call "light soil," save for a few cases and orated. He quarrelled not only Turkey, much of whose eastward membered throughout me and un an instance of this truth deserving Iraq is formed of three Olloman careful study. clear-cut expression of opinion inhabitants liave been steadily rival, Abd al-Aziz Ibn Sa-ud, provinces-Mosul,
with his castern neighbour and
Baghdad, and Another example is Lord Cromer's Basra-conquered by Britain, not long unchanged proconsulship-to one and how their representa- the Italians.
1910 and 1918; administered under tions with Egypt, and Egypt her tives should go about the task.
The horrible cruelties-seal- out of the Hejaz.
Husain took refuge in Cyprus, British mandate, and in 1927 re- wine in the sun. Undoubtedly the new
ing of wells, flinging of Arab mittee are sincere in their chiefs and even of their wives'
THE NAZI ON HOLIDAY efforts to improve upon the from aeroplanes, and generally results of their predecessors, ruthless extermination have but there is a natural hesitancy caused the name of Dis Grazi- to believe that Bull-in-the-China-ani, to stink through the Arab shop tactics will achieve this. world; and it is a significant Revolutionary spirits, especially tribute to the "civilising mis- when they are honestly seeking sion" of the modern Roman em- redress for community ills, gen-pire that Libya is the only Arab crally merit sympathy, but selec- country under European govern-' tion of the right time and thement whose population has seri- right methods are necessary if ously decreased. they are to succeed in their
PREMIER NATION quest. Violent and ill-considered
EGYPT, since the treaty of action over this issue is almost 1936 the loyal ally of Great certain to meet with fallure be Britain, is a constitutional cause conditions, notably of a limited monarchy. political character, which govern
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and all issues affected by the If as we hope, there is to be political circumstances are treat-an Arab Renaissance, only ed with greater circumspection Egypt can lead it. than under ordinary conditions. The benefit of Britain to the Acceptance of this may not be Egyptian alliance is not only palatable, but it is essential if material, but moral. the husbands representatives Egypt possesses Incompara- are to succeed in making any bly the finest Press of all the Impression on the official mind. Arab countrics, and the in- The husbands' caso can be ad- fluence of her strong democratic vanced vigorously, but at the sympathies penetrates sooner same time need not adopt a line or later far beyond the Egypti
f attack likely to alienate of an and Sudanese frontiers to ficialdom, both in Hongkong and every corner of the Arab world.
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