Mecca, Mar. 16.
The mightiest Arab since the Prophet Mohammed, King Abdul-Aziz Ton Sand, to-day suffered. a minor wound inthe leg when a bomb ex-Ploded almost at his feet, and his son, the Crown Prince, Emir Sand, suffered a serious stab wound in his left shoulder in saving his father from assassins' knives.
King Abdul Aziz, of the Hejaz and of Nejd, was walking with his eldest son near the Holy Stone of Kaaba When the attack took place. He was lad in the simple robes of the pilgrim and was en route to his regular devotion.
The three assassins leaped from hiding and threw bombs at the King and the Crown Prince, the second bomb exploding a few feet in front of King Ibn Sand and a fragment lodging in his leg.
Seeing that their initial attempt to kill the Arabian ruler had failed, the would-be killers bared long Jewelled daggers and rushed in to carry out their object. It was only through the heroism of the Crown Prince and a Bedouin chieftain that the monarch's life wae saved—
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