Word: sultans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...country had hardly recovered from the threat of war incident to the despatch of the Panther by the German Government to Agadir. Internally the country was split by a virtual civil war as well as the usual bandit depredations. It was natural that the young Sultan should lean more and more on Marshal Lyautey, "the grand old man of Morocco," who was the French Resident General. It was largely because of their mutual confidence that France was able so completely to pacify the country that she was able to withdraw two-thirds of her troops during...
...following his death, as is the custom, the late Sultan was laid to rest in Fez, a solemn ceremony being held in the Great Mosque. All the high dignitaries of the land were present. French Resident General Theodore Steeg paid his last respects to the dead monarch before the great catafalque that bore his corpse, but he was not allowed to enter the Mosque, as none but Moslems...
Meanwhile the College of Ulemas was deliberating on the choice of a successor, the rule of primogeniture not being necessarily observed. There were three candidates, all sons of the late Sultan. The youngest, a boy of 14, was finally chosen: Mulai Mohammed Hamada...
...Sultan. ". . .Long Live the Sultan." And so upon the day his father was buried with the full Moslem rights of Morocco and the full Christian rites of France, Sultan Mulai Mohammed, as he will be known, stepped under the Imperial sunshade to direct the destinies of his native land-under the aegis of the Republican French, who are now expected to have a freer hand than ever in the administration of their greatest protectorate...