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e onl} obstacles, however, that stand in the way of the En<disli
swallowing the whole Arab Peninsula, after Ihey have extended
Koweit S Ta r a ei fud y pnT G r AdCn ’ ,, Hadra F 1,3t - Muscat, Al-Bahrein,
ivoweit, Iraq and Palestine, are the northern part of Syria which
is now under French Mandate, the Hedjaz and Nejd which come
^ r y he +n Ul T 0t 11)11 Sao b d alld t1ie happy Yemen which is
ruled by the Imam Al-Mutawakil Ala Allah.
As regards the taking of Syria and the Lebanon from France British
policy considers it wise to delay it for some time. For the torture
pi the Syrians by France from time to time is bound to keep Svria
m a state of weakness that makes her more ready to be swallowed
when the time comes. And Britain cannot fail to find some means
by which to snatch jSyria from France at any time. Therefore
w lat remains for Britain to create her new India is to remove the
b,- f rom the Yemen and to uproot King Ibn Saoud from
the Hedjaz and Nejd. But suppose Britain is unable to uproot
the two men to-day. Will she stop ? No she will continue to
skirmish with King Ibn Saoud at one time and with the Imam
another. If she can defeat them she will attain her object and if
not she will satisfy herself with weakening them until the day
comes, even after half a century, when she can get rid of them.
“ The plan of the English with Fcisul A1 Dawish tw r o years ago is the
same plan which they are now y taking with Ibn Rafada. When the
English felt, two years ago, that King Ibn Saoud was getting
stronger they created for him Feisul A1 Dawish. In order, how
ever to conceal their intrigue they complaint against Al-
Dawishs’ attempt at attacking their colony Iraq. In face of this
complaint Ibn Saoud sent an expeditionary force to bring Al-
Dawish to book and considerable Arab blood was shed. The
h^nglish, in the meanwhile, sent troops and men of w T ar to Koweit
to watch the situation. If Ibn Saoud had been defeated his
country would have fallen prey in the hands of the English and
if Al-Dawdsh was defeated the English would all the same have
realised their object in weakening Ibn Saoud and plucking his
feathers. But God decreed that King Ibn Saoud should defeat
this heretic Al-Dawish, who, it was later established had been
supplied with money, arms and ammunition by Mr. Glubbe who is
known as the second Colonel Lawrence and by the Beduins as ‘ Abu
Heneik ’ Mr. Glubbe is a crafty and cunning Englishman who used
to occupy the post of Inspector of Deserts in the Iraq Government.
When the English saw that King Ibn Saoud had defeated Al-
Dawish they assisted the latter to escape and wanted to send him
to another country. But King Ibn Saoud threatened that unless
Al-Dawish was to be surrendered to him he would invade Koweit.
As a result of this threat Al-Dawish was surrendered and put in
prison until he died. King Ibn Saoud also insisted that Mr. Glubbe
should be sent away from Iraq. Eventually Mr. Glubbe was ap
pointed to the post of Inspector of Deserts in Amman the capital
of the country of the Emir Abdullah, son of ex-King Hussein, to
play the same role on the Trans jordan-Hedjaz frontiers.
u It will therefore be seen that it was Mr. Glubbe or the second Colonel
Lawrence who instigated the tribes encamping on the Hedjaz- Tians-
jordan frontiers to revolt against King Ibn Saoud and it was he who
supplied Ibn Rafada with arms and ammunition. The object
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