File 3300/1916 Pt 2 'Aden News Letters:- (Jan. 1917-Dec. 1917)' [‎139v] (278/620)

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(4) Though the Imam has prohibited people in Rudda and other Zaidee
districts from coming to Aden, they are still coming and will manage
to come here whatever the Imam may tell them. ' ^
(5) News from the Beni Omer country states that Shaikh or Saiyid Muham
mad Hasan has retired with his family to Gabal Ras and is said
to be now considering what measures he should take against W'
lurks and their supporters. About AJ months ago a renort
was received of the advance of a detachment of the Turks on Gabal
Habashi to make a demonstration and compel Shaikh Muhammad
Hasan to pay arrears of taxes claimed by the Turks and war contri
butions, and that when they were fired upon by his men from Gafin I
Habash,, the/ Turks returned to Taiz under orders of the“S
authontres. ^The Turks then sent certain people to see what Ekh
Muhammad Hasan was doing and report to them about his position
and the/again advanced against him with Shaikh Muhammad Ahmed
Naaman and his uncle Abdul Wahab with-some of their tribes, and
o have destroyed some of Shaikh Muhammad’s buildings'at Gabal
Gaba aV a -i ia if h rr . Accordln g t0 these reports thfre has been
httie fighting. Shaikh Muhammad is said to have told his men not
to hght them until he orders them to. Some of the Sunni tribes with
the lurks are also said to have refused to ioin in „ i
against Shaikh Muhammad. The Shaikh of Odain who is the father"
hi'rnen toSaikr 018 ‘ S t0 haV6 ° ffered Ws with
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he t hier or tShaikh of tbe Bani Omer countrv rpfprrprl fn oi • . ,
to the daughter of Shaikh Muhammad Hasan and though the Bani Omer marr ‘ e(I
is about days march from Gabal Mirab tfiprp i« ^ f t- ler c p lin l ;r y
between the Shaikhs about affairs there constant communication
to crush
for them.
Mia Husain Abdul Kadir Makawi has since received the following news •-
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Ebb, and also Sook-al-Muhrus, for the^r countrv^ The 801 " 6 hours t fr ] om
have alreadv reached Venm f r. fi" ^cy are reported to
2,000 of th^yZaideeJne^Yenm^nTas he* lefT^kf^u- 6 met ^
were encamped outside Yerim He had a talkfbP^ dlst ™*’ tlle y
Muhammad there. They toid him that t Tr , SOme r° f the Dho
representative had offer’d them on behalf ^ Imam ’ S
dollars for the murder of Abu Ras rhafoll v ? f - ! h -1 Imam> 13 ’ 000
Abu would b,
Krssara “f tv- - .s
till after the*holiday. Wb» bl SoS E?
from a Turkish source tfiatfhp 7a 'a u i } ln ^ orma nt learnt
dollars, and that Salf-al ,1am t h , ad a , greed to acce Pt 13,000
amount and in pursuance of that af .. underta l £en 1° pay them the
those places. Some of the Dho Muhammad at R ^ Zaide , es had left
to have left that place for tfipir ™ +. c C ^ ^ ac ^ an ar c a lso reported
were at Naked Somara and Munzil V^’ ^ ° f tJle Turli:s wil °
from Yarim, have Tne to Yar^ W £ lch are about 2 hours
between Nakeel Somara and Fbb n ° Se w h° were at other places
.0 Ebb „d 1—«
M*,k,wi. r “ ,,V oI * Mr. Muhammad Abdul K.dir
from Sultan Abdul Kadir h^L^already bi^caSn^roik 0 " 1 3 letter reCeiVed
M. A. K. Mackawi, Aden.
n Arab of Hogariya who came to Aden from lahei Hp lo w t
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