ملف ٧٠٥/١٩١٦ الجزء ١ "انتفاضة عربية - تقارير" [و‎‎٤‎٠‎١] (٤٩٤/٣٤٩)

ii U 3 & I ft 1 B ft ii A M ft D # Ualtan of the Fadhli.
*%%> the time of the last report there was some anxiety as to the
attitude of the dultan who in January had gone to Lahej to confer
with the Turks, It was reported later that the Turks had won
him over* They were said to have offered him 200 acres of the
cultivated land of the ikiltan of Lahej. Mo doubt the Pasha will
use this land as a bait for other chiefs.
The Fadhli tribes cm muster 0,000 fitting men, and thou^i
the dultan has little influence over tnem, his defection mi^it
have caused unrest. On the 10th February however he was report-
-ed to have returned, and he is now in correspondence with Aden,
Like others, he is presumably sitting on the fence and awaiting
developments.