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...HEJAZ...
Arabia was at peace last week. Hard-hitting Ibn Saud, King of the Hejaz, had stopped a brief but bloody revolt. Correspondents hurried down to Dhaba on the Red Sea to see what all the shooting was for. They got there at dusk as the desert heat was lifting. A crowd of little boys in dirty, torn abas were shrilly playing football on the dusty plain. Their football did not bounce. It was the lacerated, eyeless head of Hamad Ibn Ra fada, defeated chieftain of the Bili tribe...
...months ago Hamad Ibn Rafada crossed the Hejaz border from Transjordania at the head of 800 armed Bedouins, swearing that he would march to Mecca, depose Ibn Saud, set up a new prince of the old Hashimite dynasty. Ibn Saud sent 1,000 followers out to meet him near Jebel Shammarwith machine guns, armored cars. After a nine-hour battle the Bili were routed, 360 were killed. Hamad Ibn Rafada was decapitated, his head sent to Dhaba where the boys got a new plaything...
Honored. Charles Richard Crane, 72, of Manhattan, onetime (1920-1921) U. S. Minister to China; named honorary adviser to the Chinese Nationalist Government by H. H. Kung, Chinese Minister of Industry, Commerce & Labor. Last week Mr. Crane sailed to visit Ibn Saud, King of Hejaz and Nejd...
With his son King Feisal of Irak supporting one arm, and with his other son the Amir Abdullah of Transjordania supporting his other arm, forlorn former King Hussein of the Hejaz landed in Palestine last week, en route from his exile on the Island of Cyprus to Amman, capital of Transjordiana. Object: needed medical attention...