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Last Week's Events. Emir Ibn Saud, Sheik of Dariyah, Sovereign Lord of Nejd and Hasa, descendant of Mohammed Ibn Saud (founder of the Wahabite Empire), had declared war on Husein Ibn Ali, King of Hejaz. Verily, the fierce troops of Ibn Saud were at the gates of Mecca, Mohammaden Holy City...
...Wahabites of Nejd (central Arabian country without precise bound- aries) descended upon the town of Taif, 70 miles southeast of Mecca, in the Hejaz, over which Hussein is Emir. According to a Mecca message...
...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...
...Riyadh is the capital of the Emirate of Nejd and Hasa, the most powerful principality in central Arabia. The boundaries are as yet ill defined. The approximate population...