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...Manhattan home is many a souvenir of Arabian and Chinese voyages. Last year he and a party of friends including his son, John, were attacked by bandits during a trip through the Koweit Protectorate. A friend, the Rev. Henry A. Bilkert, was killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Crane's 75th | 7/7/1930 | See Source »

...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: the British Mandates of Palestine, Transjordania, Irak and the Sultanate of Koweit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARABIA: Holy War' | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...States of Arabia: Kingdom of Iraq; French Mandate of Syria; Kingdom of Hejaz; Emirate of Nejd_and Hasa; Emirate of Jebel Shammar; Principals of Asir; Imamate of Yemen; British Protectorate of Aden; Sultanate of Oman; Sultanate of Koweit; Emirate of Kerak; Emirate of Bab-el-Mandab; Emirate of Lahj; State of Hadramaut; Emirate of El-Mohammerah; Emirate of Bahrein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEJAZ: Religious War | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...Major Frank Holmes, engineer, arrived in Baghdad to chat with the Sultan of Nejd about an oil concession to a British syndicate. He will make similar proposals to the Sultan of Koweit and King Faisal of Iraq...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News Notes, Jun. 9, 1924 | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

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