Show off 1 I vi A X 4 wa z A ex to g q irv 11 V 41 5 S V V i at I 1 W f X f I 1 I 1 an in kingdom of hedjazi by the national geographic society D DC C itagia tIA luis has become the lie scene A AllAI of one of tile lie worlds latest liitt st of wor in tile stiv tt w years the desert Bedou bedouins ins andr tile the leadership of the alie sultan of nf have control of till nil cun elli arid arabia ns as well as with state of Ile djaz asir uin aal large areas of pastern eastern anti and southern arabia nw nv they are arc io to push their heir up ernt ions northward tuto into inia oil ancl northwestward into trans arons the seriousness of the latter hitter lies iles in the duct flint arial and trans jor dan tire lire both hatli mandates of grent great brit between them lies iles syria a mm min date of france franc e arabia tins has been figuring in world nance tile curtain rose on the arst t act lu in history and yet it lifts lias luige laige areas about which we etow practically fiut nothing because of tile the huge bulk of asia its our numerous nerous pen insulat ore somewhat dwarfed d a and ad one in allay ay iy full into the error of clim with peninsulas nen lenrer lome such us as florida hut but CO fluridis would be lost lit in this great asian Aslan projection it Is in fact a third as large as tin thi entire united states tremendous desert wastes are nut alone responsible for the fact that the outside world Is ignorant of the in tile hie heart of arabia that country if the ilia urea area over oer which the nomads room roam may be called a country liaa has one olle odthe most effective deriu slon sion laws known the exclusion law of the sword these people do not rare care to ia go into tile the outside world and nd they the Y I 1 want no visits from western traders diplomats military experts or br missionaries sio sion aries narles especially missionaries they are bloodthirsty blood thirsty fanatics on the subject of religious simplicity As Wali abis they are perhaps better known to the world than as lans for the former name they owe to their religious associations association 9 blue laws have never taken on so deep a tinge of blue ns in the land of the Wahab ls to drink or evon bevc n to smoke tobacco Is not merely a dereliction tion in their strict code it Is a capital offense Tense ol it Is equally an offense according to their views I 1 to use rich rugs and flue vessels in mosques and they have made than one effort to invade mecca itself to reduce alib holy places there to simplicity they even look upon other mo afo hamm edans not of their sect as lievers unworthy of life their capital a forbidden city the capital of the niad wi where ere was born the movement that threat I 1 ens to embrace nil arabia tins been more truly a forbidden city than lhasa the only westerner known to recent years was tin nn american smuggled in that 11 light save file lie life of it a fill and it Is I 1 that hut even tilts this er rand nind of mercy would not have him film from summary execution auve rot roi 19 little group of defenders who for H n brief time elied standard dx 4 after the world wr war great britann paid the ruler of tile the nejl a u hinze aub uh sidy fildy OdOU n nn honorarium honor arlum four lints blaies ns as ergat us its the hie salary wa ini tillo wallee of ohp fit of me united suites the young sultan nok hok n h ok the ansh and let hin bollor rs go R abom their forays pretty as they va lad with the result that great hrvat britain lad to spind spend much more than the subsidy lly defending the kings of trans jordan nod and iraq ii incursions since the sultan of king of find and ruler of most ot of arabia the lie movement has been touch much t too oo 00 greaf for a subsidy to liffe affect ct ind now grent great britain tins lias round found it nees sary to mobilize armored cars and air planes nt at the head of the lie persian aalf ulf to protect iraq ibn soud the sultan li of neld rind and kin king of fie hedjazi djaz has combined his political and military drive for it a arabia with a revival of sm tap sect was founded early td iii the eighteenth century by abd el wahab who might be termed the crt cart wright of for he was wap essentially a moslem puritan et eking to turn torn hIs falth back to what ho he considered its simple t lis 1 peling that be mono thel stIr lie was particularly disturbed by the len leniency dency to worship mohammed Mol laim wh claimed 0 o be only a mortal niort nl ns as wal as allah he fie also boand his co invoking Mos moslem leril saints and pren clied against this s practice after robab died his fits fanatical coll converts wrecked the elaborate tomb of moslem factors nod and even went so far t V us ns to try unsuccessfully to destroy the doule dome over the tomb of mohammed at ilc alna before lis ills death gahub converted to lilg fits simpli simplified fled faith a powerful sheik of central arabia ilia ihn lie he became both tile religious und find political head of slid and lie too took a leaf froin the fundo funda teachings of abol mohammed ned and nn d beall his S falth by the hie sword iraq one of the arens threatened Is the modern for the traditional garden of eden historically known as a mesopotamia the cradle of civilise 00 tion n in tile the bellef belief of many arch eolo fists and historians ts Is this very valley of lie file tigris nut aud E euphrates rates rivers iraq and its kirg king iraq lies iles beaw between cen the arabian desert oil one side unil and tile the persian Ier tip p lands hinds on the 0 other t her west vest lies tile the frinchi it alandete Alan date of syria north tile lie burdish Kurill sli highlands hIght ands of turkey the persian gulf fornis forms a corridor 10 talles giving irda a waterway to the open indian ocean dates from froin iiii alifi dardan come to new york by way of till tills 3 corl iraq live an 0 OW people a iliin tin population aaion for soll soil which once Sup support til ni more re people per acre than does densely P populated iel bel I 1 eilum gi U in great britain has made lade n her meso pota minn mandate the arab kingdom of iraq ruled by a M prince the son of the former ing hing h of king feasal reigns where babylonians As syrians greeks romans and sara i ceris cens ruled successive success successively lve ly for six centuries of the three principal cities moul the oil town seems safely beyond reach of tile the bedouins Bedou ins bagdad in the center odthe valley volley comes by its position of capital honestly basra tn in the fur far alth la IS the end of what was to have been the berlin BE rila bagdad railway w ny tho the sultan of seems to be causing history to repeat itself time after time city ways have softened city conquerors until a new barbaric C horde swept over them city ara arabs bs have taken readily to civilization ts ways they work in ice and cotton cloth factories upon public works rind and engineering projects much agricultural land has been reclaimed by irrigation in tin an effort to revive the luxuriant garden of eden dates from the date palm are tile the chief product wheat barley and rice are also grown experiments looking toward cotton growing have been promoted p to vegetables and flowers thrive in the protecting shade or of palm fronds trana Trans jordan full of komada nomads trans jordan iordan the other threatened region UPS iles in the northwestern corner of arabia adjoining palestine per imps hops it will bring the lie newly independent hut but very tery old country closer to realize that its capital now amman was once philadelphia la the grat gr at great areat greal rand rather of the half dozen or more giest anti and small that are to he be found in fut postal guides but it was waa only if a nit mere re matter of twenty odd centuries ago that the c city took the name naine philadelphia from froin its new lord ptolemy I 1 it had existed as Flab bith Anil amman linn chief city of the he Ammo ammonites illies almost from the lie days of lot bom whom the ammonites tire are sohl said to hove have sprung it was afier r a victorious hattie with these same people of amman that J jephthah according to the niall cal st story 0 ry returned to the fatal meet ins 1119 with his daughter when trans jordan bordun Is described as stretching front from the jordan and tha dead son sea toward the interior of arabia one Is likely to call up tip tilt the picture of a hopeless desert but much of the he region Is steppe land a high plain supporting some flocks and even capa ble of tillage has long held the region in its grip however tind it Is as a sort of chief of no mads that abdullah Abdul loh run ilin flus hussein sein fiilds it necessary to rule ile he holds hold g his court not in a palace but in a a group of tents which he moves with v the seasons ammon amman Is not inaccessible five hours by automobile over reasonably good roads through the sizzling valley of the jordan eutence for the fie trip fr from in jerusalem to the tl capral tile the jordon jordan forms the boundary line and across it Is an iron bridge amm amman 11 n Is only about thirty miles from the river and ins as the crowl lles Is hardly more than than sixty miles from jerusalem tile the rall railway wily contact ing damascus end and medina runs runn through the town HA ali S P |