File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎398r] (150/633)

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The Lana agent of the }olitical Officer, Lodeida,
reports that the rHit;xy bchocl at Lana held examination
on the 19th June, in which 13 pasted as lieutenants, 1 as
engineer and 3 as gunners* They were given diplomas by the
Imam* 0
According to this agent, the Imam appears to have
refused permission to the Com andant of his Artillery, Mahmood
Bey ana some other *urks to leave the Yemen*
The agent says that the Imam reviewed his troops
and distributed fruits on the Id day at Jebel Naqam*
Bazluduin's subsequent letter dated 16th July 1920, that Ibn
2 ex-Turkish officers who were in the lari si pay, k ^emails
and 20 arabs and the rest fled to Lhaibain* Captain jazluddin
Captain F&zluddin thinks that such a step on the part of
the I drisi would be hazardous at the present moment while h«
is still engaged in the r ih; ma and disastrous so far a* Asir
the Beni hughaids is wsll in the hands of Ibn Aidh at pre*
unless of courss the Idrisi obt* ins ths assistance ot Bi4F^
Baud*
Bin Baud's forces (all horsemen) have been p;rgreseing into
the ivtthtan country as well as ths highlands of Yemen*
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The haidis are reported to have occupied i>abi&nl which