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What sends shivers up an Indian potentate's languid spine is the nightmare that Britain may some day confiscate his realm. Last week to the Emir of Khairpur came a messenger with worst tidings...
...Emir was informed that his State, the only one unconfiscated in the great province of Sind, was then & there confiscated by the Government of Bombay under orders from Viscount Willingdon, new Viceroy of India...
...reason was crisp, British. According to the decree of confiscation, "H. H. Mir Ali Nawaz Khan Talpur, Emir of Khairpur, has been guilty of consistent, disastrous mismanagement of the financial affairs of Khairpur and of indifference to his subjects' welfare evinced through his continued prolonged absences from his State...
...Emir Ali did the only thing he could: lodged an appeal with the Indian Chamber of Princes. If they solidly back him up (as they were not expected last week to do) unseated Emir Ali may regain his seat...
Died. Hussein ibn Ali, 76, onetime King of Hedjaz and Grand Sheriff† of Mecca, father of King Feisal of Iraq; father of Emir Abdullah of Transjordania; father of King Ali who succeeded him for a short time when he was forced to abdicate in 1924; in Amman, near Jerusalem Aided by Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, he revolted against the Turks in 1916 dreamed of establishing a Pan-Arabian Empire which, says Col. Lawrence, the Allied Powers promised him in a treaty in 1915. But Arabia was parcelled out and he became King only of the Hedjaz, was dethroned...