Sultan Ibn Saud of the Independent State of Nejd, Central Arabia, and ruler of the Wahabi Tribe, died today. Sultan Ibn Saud was the leader of one of the most powerful Nomad Arab Tribes. His death, it is believed, will facilitate the union of the Emirs of Arabia into a Pan-Arabic Confederation.
The Sultan was an implacable enemy of King Hussein who is in the forefront of the movement to form a Pan-Arabic Confederation, Ibn Saud had been in continuous disagreement with Hussein over the boundaries dividing Hedjas and Nejd.
The Sultan of Nejd had planned to participate in the conference which will convene in Koweit on the Persian Gulf at the conclusion of the conference at Amman, which is discussing the Anglo-Arab Treaty and the proposed Pan-Arabic Confederation. The Koweit conference will include representatives of the various Arab states and will take up the different boundary disputes as well as an agreement for the handling of criminal fugitives.
Hussein, who previously had made known that he would not be represented at Koweit, recently announced that he would send a delegation to the conference. This had been regarded as the beginning of negotiations for peace between the Hedjas tribes and those of Sultan Ibn Saud.
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