Sheik Hafez Wahba, counsellor of Ibn Saud, who is now in London, declared in a press interview that he is not surprised at the reports that Ibn Saud is massing 30,000 troops in order to attack the rebel Feisal El Dawish. Ibn Saud has always been determined to suppress this rebel and as fighting is difficult during the summer months, owing to the heat and lack of water, “it is natural that operations should now be attempted,” he said.
Feisal El Dawish, East Arabian rebel chief, is the Wahabi leader who organized the raids into Iraq in 1927 and 1928.
The correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” declares without foundation the reports of a great concentration of Arabs in Ibn Saud’s territory, with the intention of marching into Transjordania and Palestine. Air patrols failed to discover a hostile movement, the correspondent declares.
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