File 3300/1916 Pt 2 'Aden News Letters:- (Jan. 1917-Dec. 1917)' [‎41r] (81/620)

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• f th# fall of PAHI8 w>ion H# *111 iamodit^ljr »*k* hl»
intend* ^ moT* 1 I
In oonsoqu^noo of British artillor/ and aorisl aotl-
▼lty f tho ts*n of LiUra has h##n almost orasuatM by ths
el rll fopulatlon«
SOToral SABA traders whs had ssttlsd down thor#
shortly aftor th* Turkish seeupati on, haT* now roturns* to
th* capital*
Th« Abdali Sul tan *s confidential correspondent dsscri-
bot th« clty as being deserted and the Ousts* House prao.
tleslly closed^
The finaneial and eoonemlo state #f the Turkish
rilayet sf Yeasn presents a misersbls picture^
The administration ’lakes n# attempt t# conceal the
graws iifficulties with whidt it is sonfranted at the
present time f mors eapacially in regard ta meeting ej^
peaditure necessary to carry on the operations in the
llftiel and LAHEJ fronts #
There has been a steady decrease in the revenues .
a* orumg from tithes in the Tilayet^ ani from customs
receipts in the TiSHISMA#
Bmoept for some masll amounts adrsneed t© them so*
sassianally t the Turkish aiTil and military officials
haw# not reselTad their salaries for over eighteen months
while the troops have not bae* paid far the past thjree
years*
Mah&oud Bedim, whose principal ablest in touring
the Tehena waa to raiae s loan in order t© ^ ^ lrj
inewitable day, was sorely disappointed n his ilx*-
suacess. His efforts dirested against the Xabldnerw
chants only realised a sum sf 9,000 dollars*
Liquidation of enemy property at Bodelds was them
detain if to but the proceeds sf the sale of fire com-
meroial houses barely amounted to oeTen or eight hundred
pounds*
the pries of grain appears to be going up in the
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