22 SEPTEMBER 1923, Page 2

Last Sunday Arab tribesmen revolted against Emir Abdullah, the ruler

of Transjordania. According to a statement issued by the Colonial Office, the Adwan tribe had been giving considerable trouble for some time, and on September 15th an ultimatum was sent to Sultan Adwan demanding his submission within forty-eight hours. Sultan Adwan's answer was to cut certain roads and communications. The result was that Transjordanian forces, with a certain amount of British help, and under a general British superintendence, attacked the rebels and dispersed them. About thirty tribesmen, and one of the Adwan sheikhs, were killed. It is to be hoped that this little trouble is ended, but it is a type of the anxieties and financial risks to which the Palestine mandate commits us.