Word: hejaz
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Robed and stately sheiks of the Arabian plateau gathered, last week, to imprint loud, smacking kisses of fealty on the tip of their potent Sultan's nose. The monarch thus saluted was Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, bronzed and stalwart Sultan of Nejd, King of the Hejaz. He subjects his nose to kisses, instead of receiving bows of homage, because his subjects are of a fanatically orthodox Moslem sect, the Wahabi, and hold that the pious should bow only to Allah. Last week the Sultan and his devout Sheiks were persistently reported to have launched a "Holy War." Menaced areas...
...Majesty Ibn Saud, warlike Sultan of Nejd and King of the Hejaz, came tidings last week of his flourishing son the Amir Faisal, 19-year-old Viceroy of the Hejaz. The tidings were conveyed 500 miles by motor caravan from the Red Sea town of Jidda in the Hejaz, to the Sultan's inland capital, Riyadh, in Nejd. There was it made known that the enlightened son & Viceroy had finally caused to be obliterated that notorious imposture, "The Tomb of Mother Eve," at Jidda...
Stallion, Slave. From Ibn Saud Husein, King of the Hejaz, to "Salubria," horse farm of Rear...
Colonel Lawrence personally dynamited 70 Turkish bridges and a score of Turkish railway trains. It was he who was instrumental in driving the Turks from Damascus with a Pan-Arab army, in the name of King Hussein of the Hejaz and Arabia, a few hours before Field Marshal Allenby's columns arrived to make the victory secure. It was Colonel Lawrence who represented the Pan-Arabs at the Peace Conference, protesting vainly when France received her Syrian mandate. And finally it is Colonel Lawrence who, today, sees his good friend Emir Feisal? now King of Irak...
Colonel Lawrence personally dynamited 70 Turkish bridges, and a score of Turkish railway trains. It was he who drove the Turks from Damascus with a Pan-Arab army, in the name of King Hussein of the Hejaz and Arabia, a few hours before Field Marshal Allenby's columns arrived to make the victory secure. It was Colonel Lawrence whom Marshal Allenby had fetched by airplane that the Colonel and the Field Marshal might enter Jerusalem together. It was Colonel Lawrence who represented the Pan-Arabs at the Peace Conference. It was he, moody, mystical, perverse, who was driven...