File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎351r] (57/633)

Infantry. These iron ape said to be bound fop
Zttba *5.
©ie Italians in As sab ars said to b« In
ccffimunieatl n Ith tha IxaaBi. Thgiy ara raportod to
be in the habit of sending their letters to the
Arabian Coaet between Sheikh 3aaad and Khokfaa where they
are delivered to an Iwan 1 s ires eager, report
requires conflrntition.
Bee Abdaii Suitan infoms me that Zaidi
troops are being withdrawn from the Imam’s southern
frontier and are being replaced by local levlcc
which are being organised by Turkish officers into 4
regiments with headquarters at Talz and Ibb a «3 2
othor places*
consequent on this organisation probably accounts
ior tli 3 pgrsist nt reports of troops ass <=g 33 biing at
Ibb etc*
last let ten is .sa d to be due to the very heavy rainfall
of this year coreined with excessive sating of the new
crop of bajrl.
Protectorate attacked and looted an Italian dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. off the
Barhliri coast* The lo ted good belonged to a British
subject of Aden* The pirates also carried away Hs*100
and some Jewellery belonging to the nukhuda of the dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. *
I have asked the Abdaii Sultan to try to recover the goods
The movement and recruitment of troops
iDSK PPQTSCK)R*iTE.
The disease among the Zaidie referred to in my
Recently the Barhimi tribe (Subehi) in thie
fron/
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