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Cy\~ 0 Ouky.
excluded the Emir Saud, the *mmm Prince, who remains
in Riyadh, was travelling in 167 motor cars with a supply
train including 10000 gallons of petrol.
It is locally supposed that His Majesty with his
usual political acumen is "calming his fanatical tribesmen"
to the English, "marching on Palestine" to the Arabs and
in reality mostly engaged in hunting, marrying and practical
joking; and if perhaps a few of the younger bloods go for
a foray in Palestine His Majesty will no doubt know nothing
of it*
(b) A new frontiar post was established at Lina about
the beginning of August and Abdulla bin Saiyid, one of
Bin Saud 1 s ♦negroes’ was put in charge of it*
Early in August Ibn Arfaj was instructed to relive
bin Amar as the official in charge of the Hafar post, and
Ibn Muhasib put in charge of Um ar Radhuma post.
Stricter vigilance was enjoined upon all frontier
officials.
(c) To enthusiastic offers from certain of his
tribesmen to "help their brethren in Palestine in their hour
of need", Bin Saud is in local report said to have replied
that he, conjointly with the Imam of Yemen and King Ghazi ,
had sent an appeal to H.M.King Edward appealing for a
satisfactory settlement of the Palestinian question and
was awaiting the result till when no move should be made.
(d) Mohammad ibn Abdul Aziz al Apafa, brother of
Saud al Arafa, cousin and brother-in-law of the King,
arrived at Kuwait on the 15th August acccmpanied by al-
Ruba’i, a member of Bin Saud’s retinue, in order to attend
the local ^unerican Mission Hospital. He and his party
were put up in a house provided for them by the Shaikh of
Kuwait.
On 2nd September finding no relief frcm his ail-
ment, Mohammad al Arafa left for Baghdad to have himself