File 10/12 Desert news: defeat of Ikhwan by Ibn Sa`ud (Battle of Sibilla, 1929); operations against rebels [‎91r] (188/382)

Similarly when Y«>.S 0 sent out a party in oars on the 6th Rauindhan
recover
to txxxnjbcxx&&xgu£ the animals which had been stolen from some
Dhaflr near Jahrah, the latter were doubtless very grateful when
you were able to restore them, Sven if you had failed to do so,
however, neither the owners nor anyone else could have blamed
Y*E e , as you had obviously done everything in your power to
recover them*
Let us therefore consider what the dangers are to which
cars using the road in question are liable to be exposed, and
how they can reasonably be protected against those dangers 0
There appear to me to be two possible causes of danger, namely
(l) robbers, and (2) raiders*
(1) Robbers, such as I believe not unfrequently fire on cars
on the road from Tanumah to Muhammarah, are certainly a possiol<
though not very probable cause of danger on this road.The best
protection against this the rifle. The very fact that it be
fcnawn that all cars are armed will probably be sufficient to
deter such people from trying to hold up carso I think there
fore that the original aa custom of all cars of the Kuwait -
'Iraq Motor Transport Company carrying rifles for the use of
passengers should certainly be restored*
(2) Against a raiding party on the other hand three or four
rifles are of little or no use, except for such satisfaction
as it would give one to be able to defend oneself in case of
extremity, and it is obviously impossible for Y.E. or anyone
else to to provide cars with sufficiently strong escorts to be
of any real protection to them at all. Cars, however, have the
very great advantage of pace, and can easily get away from
raiders if they see them in time and realize what they are.
Raiders want to plunder sheep and camels, but are not interest-
in cars, and there is no fear of them lying in ambush to catch
them or interfering with them in any way unless the cars run
t tvinlr there is little doubt that when the
right into them. X think there
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