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An American writer, referring to Chicago's motoring laws, points out that not all American

laws are so liberal.

motoring!

In some towns of the State of California, for instance, there is a

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SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1934.

WAR BETWEEN TWO STRONG MEN

GRIM STRUGGLE IN

THE YEMEN

HONOUR

IS AT STAKE

(By Kenneth Williams.)

still have obligations-Irak, Pales-.

Whither The Monarchs

law restricting speed to 20 miles anHERE is a war in Arabia. Not, as the "Brethren," will hurl them hour and 15 miles in public parks.) happily, in that section of the selves in vain against the tried. On the State highways there is alvast peninsula in which the British warriors of the Yemen. speed limit of 20 miles.

Needless to say, these limits are tine and Transjordan-but far down In any case why prophesy, porti- not generally observed.

in the remote south-west, towards cularly when the ultimate intentions that delectable land blessed of the of neither monarch are known? It monsoon which the Romans called is doubtful whether Ibn Saud is "Arabia_Felix," It is there that concerned with much more than the San Diego, California, is one of the deserts of Nejd run into the desert "no-man's-land which di- the most difficult towns in which to mountains of the Yemen; it is rides his domain from the Yemenis. get a driving licence.

there that the immemorial jealousy At this moment his men, command- The applicant must pass a sight between plainsman and hillemuned by his son and heir, are steadily and hearing test, answer questions has broken out.

absorbing the debatable lands. To

Severe Tests

on the motoring laws, solve pro- The struggle is one in effect be- tackle the Imam's troops in their blems set by means of model cars tween the respective abitione of the mountain heights would be courting jon a model road system, and demon-mighty Wahhabi ruler of the Hejaz- the favours of Fortune recklessly, strate his skill by driving a trafic Nejd. recently renamed Saudia (in and Ibn Saud, though he has at officer through a crowded district. honour of its conqueror, Ibn Saud), times shown a desperate courage, When he eventually gets his and the Imam Yahia of the Yemen.(has never been guilty of unncées- licence he must observe meticulous

These two, men are incomparably kary recklessness. A stable buffer rules as to signs in driving. Some the most important sovereigns of State would surely satisfy him. of these are

Arabia proper. Elsewhere, reign-| This no "pecial correspon- To turn right-hold the hand out);

ing chieftains ewe their position ent's" war. News from the and up.

largely to foreign goodwill. But "front"

tíme to trickle To turn left-hold the hand bn Saud and the Imam Yahin have through to Aden and to Jeddah.

straight out.

carved out their own careers. have Casualties will not be high. But To stop-hold the hand out and stamped their personalities on the honour is at stake.

down.

faithless sail, have established a An Islamic proverb saya, "If two The penalties for making wrong right to governance that is unques-Moslems meet each other, with the signs are severe.

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Rules For Marchers

which

is

takes

tioned-by their own followers. sword, both murdered and murder- Not since 1924, when the Saudfer will surely go to Hell." The two began his conquest of the Hejaz. rival monarchs were reminded of million cases. This year it will Germany has its road problems, has there been real war between this a few months ago by a would- be six million. Certainly the too.

Arab and Arab. Arabia in no be mediator from Egypt. Yet once price has fallen to some extent, { Extension of the habit of mass longer the Arabia of “Colonel T: E. more Arab is fighting Arab, in ac- Lawrence." The world has moved]cordance with the saying that war Hong Kong. Saturday, May 12, 1934. but the economy in overhead marching bas induced General

charges resulting from the lar-Goering to issue traffic regulations on since those romantic days, which is the normal occupation of Arabia. to the Arabs, or, more correctly, to This statement is an exaggera- ger scale of transactions hasffor the marchers.

for Bedouin raiding, the offset this, and the demand is At night the leader must carry some Arala, were literally the "Age tion. practically unlimited. Another a reflector on his chest, and the last of Gold." The Arab Confederation, national pastime which is always which was to embrace the whole indulged when rulers strong enough ten thousand acres are to 'he man a reflector un his back. It is not quite true that retro-planted this year.

land from the Mediterranean to the to stop it are lacking, cannot be General Goering bas also sup-

Persian hills, and from the Indian equated with fighting. In that, the gression in trade, excess of pro-

A flourishing primary industry pressed the old rule by

Ocean to the Turkish table-lands, object is not killing, but loot. The duction, inability to raise new leads always

motorists had to light their lumps

and which was to be ruled over by present clash between Ibn Saud and capital, are universal. There ment of workshops and sub-an hour after sunset.

the late King Hussein, was but a the Imam Yahia is something for here and there excep-sidiary trades. The population it is dark."

Now they must light them "when

dream.

different. It may be the final {tions, and it is quite possible that of Tel Aviv has grown to eighty

It was doomed to founder on the throw between two men who have something may be learned from thousand. Of

sands of Central Arabia, where Ibn both trusted in God and kept their course a large

A Diplomatic Paralich them. All the more because proportion of the immigrants arēj

Saud had other ideas of the future. powder dry. And should Ibn Saud The sudden death recently of Mr. and on the rocks of the Yemen suffer smashing defeat, the whole of contentment and prosperity do townlared people who are not

William Wallace McDowell, the new plateau, where the

Imam Yahin Arabia would be thrown into the not make cable news, it is true ready to go on to the land. Thesej

American Minister to Treand, is njeven then would acknowledge no melting-pot; and the reactions of either of a community or a com- find work in sixty five factories parallel to that of M. Hartwig, the one as his master. Yet about these such a defeat in the northern, more pany that when all is going well and workshops in Tel Aviv, busy Russian Minister to Serbia. He two famous men you will find vir-fcivilised part of Arabia, where we Ve are apt to hear nothing produeing building materials fell dead with heart failure as hetually nothing in the pages of still have obligations, would be a about it. One of the most inter-fertilisers and other chemicals, was discussing the Austrian ultima-"Revolt in the Desert," esting of these exceptional cases įmetul specialities, and clothing, tum with the Austrian Minister in of prosperity is Palestine, where From this prosperous centre in Belgrade.

Jare

to the establish.

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The Saud's Warning under the British Mandate the dustries are spreading out over Mr. McDowell, a Baptist of Scot- Though both well-loved and suc- Jewish National Home has been the rest of the country. There ish descent, was an old personal cessful autocrats, they lack an ad-) making steady progress that has are now four thousand industrial friend of Mr. de Valers.

vantage held by certain of the post- become very rapid in the last few establishments, employing eigh- He was a Montana rancher with war Arab States. No expert Com- years since the trouble with the teen thousand workers, with anflarge interests in copper mines and mission delimited their frontiera. Arabs subsided. And the best output of four million poundsupplied one more example of Pre-Between Saudiu and the Yemen feature of the success is that it worth of goods per unnum, and sident Roosevelt's preference for there is a considerable territory is on

the provinces of Axir and Nejran, of a long term basis, owing representing an investment

He was a teetotaller,

often according nothing to currency manipula-three and a half millions

non-prevariously held, smoker, and a widower. His wife to settler's right. There is in tion or juggling with figures. plant. The regularity of divi-died with almost equal suddenness Araba little question of self-deter-

Fifty years ago the English dends attracts capital from the less than six months ago. schoolboy who was providing Jewish communities in foreign

non-career diplomatists.

in

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himself with a refresher for the lands, and the banks have eleven Your Daily Smile!

end of his football match used to million pounds in hand awaiting

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You want

cause for infinite speculation and

worry.

MINIMUM WAGES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Wide Cabinet Powers Under New Bill.

TO AID EUROPEANS mination. The Buccessful ruler takes what he can gel and hoid.

Cape Town. Some years ago Ibn Saud added

Measures of u most far-reaching the greater part of Asir as a Pro- character, designed to fix minimum

what

provide himself with a "Jaffa investment. The population has! An ambulance recently

ran tectorate to his vast damain, and in wages in industries and publie con- Orange." if his pocket money grown in ten years from eighty down a pedestrian and then took 1932 he incorporated Nejran. cerns such as municipalities, and to could rise to such a luxury. itive to two hundred and thirty him to hospital. If

Several times he has had trouble determine by Proclamation cost more than the thin-skinned thousand, and the Treasury has business these days you have to with the Imam over this border ter-percentage of employees should be

ritory.

paid such fixed minimum rates, nre variety, but the judiciness' and a surplus of two million pounds go out and get it.

The erstwhilst ruler of Astr, the at present being considered by the flavour were worth the money. in hand-equivalent to half a

CLEAN FUN DEPT

Idrisi, has taken refuge in the Government. The oranges were grown on the year's estimated expenditure,

One of the most hopeful. de- plain of Sharon, and exported)

A university Chair of Humour Imam's territories. But not until A Bill has actually been drafted, through the port of Jaffa; and in velopments is that the Arabis suggested. This is probably the last year did the Yemenis seriously and if passed by the Cabinet and the land, and that is not there when you exert themselves to extend their Parliament it will place the Govern- those days before the cool cham-population settled on

dominions at the expense of Ibnment in a position to open up large- ber accommodation on ships had who were stubbornly resistent to try to sit down.

Saud. They then sent troops into avenues of European employment advice from experts, have been

this disputable land, and were by Proclamation. warned off by Ibn Saud. The Imam One of the main provisions of the persisted, but at last agreed to dis- new mensure will be to enable the cuss the matter amicably. Possibly Government to declare a minimum his intentions were peaceful only in wage up to 8. per day for as large words, for Tha Saud, learning that a percentage of labourers in any the Zeldi troops of the Imam were undertaking in any given area as

been invented, and all imported convinced of the value of inten- fruit was a rarity, it was only jsive farming by the practical re-

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MORAL MOMENT

Thin men may be honest, but

inter that the West Indian banana sults shown by their neighbours, most fat men can't stoop to trade was organised by Mr. They constitute four fifths of the thing low, either. Joseph Chamberlain,-there was total of residents, though only practically no other fruit to behalf of the industrials. With

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NATURALLY!

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any

The primary intention la to disputed region, gave the order for secure more employment for Jam.

Europeana as it is held that em--

rather There had been long preparations ployers would

pay the

had in the football season. Athem progress is slower, but the A newspaper's article, entitled couple of miles away from the chance of a higher standard of "Why I Want Easier Divorce," is still harassing, the occupants of the the Minister may think fit. port was a small and impoverish-life is diverting them from the anonymous. What else could you his forces to march against the ed suburb called Tel Aviv. After barren political disputes which expect? the war this suburb was chosen nearly wrecked the unstable ex- periment on several occasions. In as the centre of the re-organised the early years. The Arabs have orange industry.

had a setback from the new Progress had to be slow and Egyptian tariff, which greatly gradual, for an orange tree takes handicaps some of their old lines. about eight years to reach its af trade, but they are finding re- prime, and the years of waiting hef in supplying their home mar-it in gum, have to be austained with the ket.

THE MAILED FIST An advertisement offers a cor- for this contingency on either alde. stipulated minimum wage up to the respondence course in boxing. Ammunition,' motor-transport, wire-fixed percentage to Europeans than-

|less, all have been mobilised for to Natives.—Reuter,

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HOBBIES 'CORNER How to make a broomstick-dip

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L. 8. DEE

help of investors that are not too The Customs Tariff is low and impatient about dividends. The simple, for Palestine is a Manda- Is what they call the Scottish British Government guaranteed tory, country, and cannot grant river since Neville Chamberlain the capital and interest of a loan special privileges. There is no went fishing in it. of four and a half million purpose for which revenue is re quired but administration and pounds, and trees got planted on development. Here is an object "A lawn--I did Str" a large scale. Ten years ago lesson in the power of modern

GARDENER'S BOAST

the output had grown to a total science and organisation to add Mrs. Moderz asks:---

of two million costs, Last year to the world's wealth, if only the "What in this spring cleaning the export was four and a half world would give them a chance, the comic papers talk about?”--

what some observers feel to be the real struggle for the hegemony of the Peninsula.

SOVIET SCIENTIFIC PLAN

Expert opinion on Arabia varies (as usual). Some think (very The Soviet Academy of Selance;will' foolishly) that the Yemen is just a send a scientifle expedition to central countries this spring, it la bubble shortly to be pricked by Ibn Saud, Others (the wish being he expedition will be investigations

reported in Moscow. The main father to the thought) assert that into the little known desert territories, the occupation by the Wahhabi of the borders of which are Inhabited "Arabia Felix", in but, an inevitable by Turkomenes.... ......It is planned development in the Irresistible traverse Kara-Rum desort and to man march of Arabian unity. And this territory the irrigation and prob

able cultivation, of which has been a others belleve that the fichwan, the problem to Soviet Russian science for fearless troops of Ibn Saud known a long time.

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