File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎614r] (582/633)

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31«t March 1919•
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idinec the despatch of my last latter the surrender
ef the Turkish forces in Yemen and Asir has been campleted 9 and
Mahmud Tewfih Pashm, the Turkish Cemmander*in-Chief in Yemen Is
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new in Aden, The total numbers surrendered are officers *kM
9032 rank ft file, 20 B civilians and 1030 women and children,
2, Ismail Kffendi, an Abyssinian in the Turkish service,
known ae "Ml Aewad", was interviewed by Celonel Jacob before he
left far kgypt*
Of Meh^sed Hasir Mukbil ef Mawlm Ismail Xffendl said that ;
he had power only when the Turks were there, but new he has ns
grtat influenos, Hs is vacillating, not knowing whother t#
follow^ tho Imam or opposs him, Hs will follsw tho lins sf
loast resistance.
In Ismail kffendi 9 s opinion tho most influential man in
the Yemen of tho dhawmfi is aahomsd Hasoan of tho dhadhiliya
cult. Isnail Kffendi said that hs was sent sfainst hi» saTsral
tinss but was loath to proceed against this holy nan ae he in
Tory much rerered by all ahawafi. He is tha atrongeet Uhsfai
hs knows: fax stronger than Ibn Hasir Uukbil or ayod Ahned Pashr
the latter, he said, is s shifter with an eye to the main ohanc
Ismail Kffendi considered Imam Yahya to no the atrongsst
jMm. Others llks ayed Ahmed bln Kasim,he said, are far belsw^
him, but ereryene is up gainst Im» Yahya by reasen of hi.
stinginess,
Ismail sad that the Imam offered him the Kmimmakamate sf j
tais but h# would not stop s moment longer in the Yemen t ere h
ha held effioia poets for 20 years.
yrom r «perts reosired from different aouroee it appears
that while hs was at fas, Ismail recsiwed order, from ths
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