Word: jordania
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since Sultan Ibn Saud is no friend of Great Britain, planes of the Royal Air Force roared out with alacrity from the British war base in Trans-Jordania to bomb the Arabs who had killed U. S. Missionary Bilkerd. As aviators go, those of the R. A. F. are a kindly and efficient lot, although one of them bombed and killed a detachment of British native troops near Peshawar, British India, last week, quite by accident. Those who flew out to avenge Dr. Bilkerd, however, returned with all their bombs intact, having seen no bandits...
Theodore of Amasia lived and died for his faith in God many centuries ago. In his honor, the citizens of Jerash, Trans-jordania, built a church with three apses, a court and a fountain. The ruins of this church were found last week by a Yale Archeologist, one J. W. Crawfoot...
Arabia. Britain, as mandatory Power for Iraq, Palestine and Kerak (Trans-jordania), informed the Secretariat that those countries objected to paying the proportions of the Ottoman Public Debt assigned to them by the Treaty of Lausanne. An arbiter to be appointed by the Council of the League was suggested...
...land of sand, where camels are more numerous than locomotives, traveling is neither comfortable, rapid nor safe-even for Kings. King Hussein of Hedjas set out upon a tour of Arabia some weeks ago. Near Petra in Kerak (Trans-jordania) he was attacked last week by a band of Wahabis, who owe their allegiance to the Emir of Riyadh*, Abd el-Aziz es-Saud. After a long struggle, King Hussein's escort repelled the attackers. The trouble between King Hussein and the Emir of Riyadh is over the demarcation of the eastern boundary of Hedjas, the alleged aspiration...
...Jordania states that in one day the Bolsheviki executed 200 people, by order of the Cheka, without trial. The victims included women and children. Most of the men killed were of the educated classes...