File 3498/1912 ‘Aden News Letters’ [‎32r] (74/598)

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Political Intelligence Summary — concld.
Hour, Date, Place.
Summary of Events and Information .
Remarks and refer
ences to
Appendices.
20th January 1916— contd.
41. Report says that the Padli Sultan is still at Lahej,
where the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. has offered him many acres of
cultivable land, belonging to Abdul Majid, brother
of the deceased Sultan Ahmed Fadl.
21st January 1916
42. A Maisari (Fadli) Shaikh, who came from Lahej
yesterday, says the Fadli is anxious to return to
Abyan, but the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. presses him to stay ; that the
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. has called in the Haidara Am Mansur and
the Lower Yafais, in order to patch up their differ
ences with the Fadli Sultan ; that the Sultan wrote
to his son-in-law Ah bin Ahmed, to his son Abdallah,
and his grandson Abdul Kadir to come to Lahej.
The son-in-law replied he was too busy with harvest
ing his crops.
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43. Kptaibi writes that he warned Dambari tribesmen
not to traffic with Lahej. They send live-stock
there, and almost daily go to see the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. . The
Kotaibi beheves the Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. sent the Dambari
Shaikh Salim bin Husen some money, which the
latter declined to receive (?);
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(b) that Amir Nasar of Dala had written to all the
Radfan tribesmen, including Kotaibi, to meet him
at Dala. Kotaibi wrote to them not to go, but that
he might represent them later —rendezvous at
Hardaba.
22nd January 1916
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44. A prominent Azzani (Beda) tribesman Shaikh
Abdallah bin Salim interviewed to-day says, that
the people of Riyashiya (Shafai persuasion) (new
boundary map 1 to 4 in. N. Lat. 44 • 10 and E.
Long. 44'45) were planning an attack on Beda Sultan,
but the leader became at variance with the Imamic
Lieutenant “ Sef al Islam ” and so deferred his
attack ; that the newly elected Rassasi Sultan of
Beda, Abdallah bin Alawi bin Husein, was a stout
warrior, and he did not think the Turks or Imam
could get a foot-hold in these hills.
45. The Maisari Shaikh Abdallah Am Muhammad is
willing to come in to help the British Government,
if his Sultan, the Fadli, is not amenable, but he wants
ammunition to resist the Marakisha and Nakha’i
tribesmen, who are devoted to Sultan (see No. 42
above).
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