The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-03-10
War In Adam and Ewes Old Home

A seems about to break out in the very
cradle of the human race.
All across northern Arabia the British are in line,
hourly awaiting the start of a Holy War against
their protecorates by Ibn Saudi king of the Hedjaz
and sultan of the Ncjd,
Here, in the valley Of the Tgris and the Euphratcs
is the traditional site Of the Garden of Eden where
Adam and Eve started off this worlds travail with
their adventure with the apple and the snake.
Here Noah lived and built his ark and SO survived
the flood. Here the Tower Of Babel rose and was
destroyed, and here stood Ur the home town of
Abraham, progenitor of the Hebrews, Edomites and
other tribes including the Arabs Of whom this same
I'm Saud is notable descendant
Today, according to dispatches at the Palestine
port OF Jaffa--the biblical Joppa whence Jonah
barked on the cruise made famous by the whale
they are landing machine guns and other modern
munitions CT
Past Jerusalem, across the River Jordan in which
Christ baptized and on through the historic land
of Canaan British tanks and armored motor cars are
rumbling towards the trans-Jordania frontier.
And wingng it from ancient Egypt high above
the trail .Todden by Moses and the children Of Israel
on their way out OF bondage. giant bombing planes
are headed in the same general direction, loaded with
civilizations latest high explosives.
What a setting and what war! For mllcnniums
this country has little else but a war like
thiS-thc twentieth century, A. D. at grips with the
twentieth century, B. C. For but for powder, Ibn
Saud and his followers fight pretty much as they did
thousands of years ago. galopiag into action white
canels lurChing across the desert sands.
The angel of jehovah we are told prophesied to
Hagar Abrahan's bOndwoman and legal concubne
that her son Ishmae would be a wild man" And
so the IshnaeHtes were and have been down to, and
including. the modern tribe of Wahabis, the follow
ers Of Ibn -aud
After the passing of Mahomet and his first Cauphs,
many OF the tribes Of Arabia broke away from the
true beliefs and practices Then, about 174O. Ma
hommed Ibn Abdul Waho5, a sort of Arabian Puritan
led a move back to orthodoxy and 50 the Wahabis
come to be-
AS for Ibn Saud, he comes OF a family CT Wahab
Sheks, an ancestor the shek Of Deraiya, in Central
Arabia, having been converted by Wahab himself.
His family having been driven out Of power about 100
years ago by rival chieftain in the north he has
in recent years returned from exile at Koweit and
conquered all Central Arabia including the terri
tory of his northern rival.
Said to be the most powerful leader Arabia has
had in generations Ibn Suad now menaces the Brit
ish. That is to say, he is threatening the less
orthodox Arabs Of -Jordania, Irak and Kowet.
who are under British mandate and so under British
protection.
But for one thing the present troubles in Arabia
might be far more serious for Britain than they
promise to be now though the situation is serious
enough Egypt seethng with revolt and India is al
most as bad.
But the Mohammcdans of these countries don't see
eye to eye with the Wahabis in all that has to do with
their faith otherwise all Islam from Egypt to India
would be afame against British rule Asit is Britain
may hope for the best