File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎477r] (308/633)

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Catptuln Jft'agluddin arrived hare on Die 29th jebru ry*
Hie report mentioned in ■> Xaat letter about the oocupation
of the ;.asa of Th»imir < te by the King of the hedjag app#;. rs
to be groundleeo*
1 am eending by Uiis mail copies of Captain Jraalud^inii
diary dated *,4th ^ebru ry 1920 from which it appears that
the idrisl has no c-eeided on hie policy in the Ilhama* Ha
hae occupied Jabel Jiura on necount of ite strategical poei*
tion to enaure the safety of the ulira territory but he had
stopped any further adranee with Jabd Heima and in faet all
other hilly districts as a mat or of dofinit€ policy. Ha
doss n »t intend to adyanca beyond Zabced nor beyond Hujjaila
on tiio i^uhra border. In a oonfidenti l letter ho has addres
sed te his com binder at Hajil. sheikh fahir bin uadv wn # the
Idrisi reminds him that the main objects of hie deputation
wore threefold vis:-
1. To establish good government in the plaee of anurehy.
2. Xa act as the preteetor of tiie lives, property and re
ligion of the Jiafiite Tihama she had appealed te him
se incessantly and anxiously againBt the Zsidi r. vagss.
5. is deftnd the count y of the vu^ras whom he had pledged
his word to dsfend(aa a condition of the release ef the
Hritiih 11 scion) against the Zeiti advance in their
country.
The Idrisi hns wise given Jheikh fasir Mabkhut el«ar-
ly to understand that the Hajjsh affair is <ntirely his own.
though he will continue te give assistanee in money and
aamnition as far as in his power.
HxWiwXro.vAXtt.
There has been no further Insmic advanco sinoo the
date ef my last letter, t ough a report from Upper lafa
states that a reinforcement of 600 Zoiois with 4 guns and
tOthcr material has arrived at nataba. deatined for Lahej.
iotner report says that a large force la b«ing collected
te go to tho nausdabi country.