Reports from Amman in Transjordania, where Arab notables of both the Extremists and Moderate Party have gathered for a conference with King Hussein regarding the proposed Anglo-Arab treaty, indicate that feeling between the two factions is nearing the breaking point. Partisans of the Extremists and Moderate Party have engaged in a knifing affray, as a result of which several men were arrested.
King Hussein of Hedjas, who is the recognized leader in the negotiations and who has been said to aspire to the Caliphate, has deemed it expedient to make a statement regarding the proposed treaty, his first reference to it since his arrival in Amman several days ago. Hussein declared that the Arab question is still far from solution and that he and his sons are prepared to devote their lives in the service of the Arab peoples. His statement that he will accept only what the nation itself is prepared to accept, is accepted by his adherents as refutation of the accusations of the Extremists that Hussein had already given his promise to sign a treaty which includes Transjordania and Mesopotamia, but which does not include Palestine, which the Extremists demand be included in any negotiations with the representatives of Great Britain.
Considerable significance is attached here to a visit on Hussein by Barlassina, Jerusalem Catholic prelate, and the attendance of Major Philby, British representative in Transjordania, at a dinner given for 60 Arab notables on Friday.
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