Concentration of Wahabi tribes at the Tambuk frontier was reported in despatches from Amman. Attacks on the frontier villages have been made. Many in the Elzein tribe, including the Sheik, were killed during one of these attacks, and the invaders carried off the tribe’s cattle.
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