File 3300/1916 Pt 4 'Aden News-Letters. (1921-23)' [‎294r] (587/644)

The Imam ie proceeding witln the reorattnisation
and training of Mb army under Turkish officers, Ibb is
one of the training centres*
The Ixnam is reported to have fortified l>ana and
Bhahara, hie former capital # and to have removed all the
valuables to the latter place*
If this report is true, the Imam probably
believes in the truth of the many rumcure floating about
the Yemen that an attack by bin Baud on ths Imam is
pending in the near future*
A man, who recently arrived from Bans, atatee
that the imam has been writing letters to Turks in
Constantinople asking them to supply him with military
stores and troops and to come and reoccupy the Yemen
before it is taken by the English, who are putting
everyone against him*
A ^Jf PRCT^CTC bAT^*
.*xagt;*rated reports of the arrival of large
reinforcements at Jala are rife. There is, vwever, no
reason to believe that more than a couple of hundred
mei’i have arrived to replace the old garrison which had
got out of control as reported in my last letter..
The haushabl sultan has refused to grant shelter
any longer to Fumar refugees from the lariya district
and in consequence an incident, which threatened at one
time to cause further friction between ourselves and thu
Imam, has now closed.
The local leader Kayed Saleh made one raid
across the protectorate border in pursuit of fugitives
but ths attitude of All ibn Wazir Minister. , the Amil at Tuiz was
correct throughout*
I have just received news that ths %adhi al
ATas hi, who was the Imamio emissary at Aden for a
considerable period during the war, has arrived at
Lahej