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...have withdrawn from the disputed territories. However we do not acknowledge full defeat until Ibn Saud returns to methods of justice and peace. We have begged King Fuad of Egypt to intervene...
...Saudite troops equipped with modern rifles and armored cars last week swooped down from the north upon Hodeida under the command of not Ibn Saud himself but his eldest son, the Emir Saud. Death of foxy Yahya the Imam seemed exaggerated. From Sana, his walled capital 7,000 ft. up in the mountains, he cabled Cairo...
...Hejaz, the principalities of Asir and Yemen, the British-controlled Hadramaut, Oman on the tip of the Persian gulf, and Nejd, the great central core. What they did not reckon on was the mettle of the man who had already won for himself part of this dusty district - Ibn Saud, ruler of the Nejd. Abdul Aziz ibn Abdur Rahman Al Faisal Al Saud, Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, better known as Ibn Saud, is a towering figure, 6 ft. 4 in. in his sandals. His simplest method of holding tribal loyalties is to marry the sheik...
Elderly Yahya, the Imam of Yemen, is as crafty and penny pinching as strapping Ibn Saud is brave and generous. Where the latter won sheiks' loyalties by marrying their daughters, Yahya the Imam kidnapped his sheiks' children and held them as hostages. The latest dispute over the unmapped boundary between Yemen and Asir has been going on for two years, complicated by the fact that last year the Idrissi of Asir, repenting his surrender to Ibn Saud, fled over the border to join Yahya the Imam...
Last year Ibn Saud sent a mission to Yemen to settle the boundary dispute peaceably. Yahya the Imam pleaded illness as an excuse for not seeing them, then clapped the delegation into jail and sent an armed force into Asir under the former Idrissi...