File 3300/1916 Pt 1 'Aden News Letters:- (June 1916-Dec. 1916)' [‎318r] (15/348)

adds ohat th« Padli Sultan will «iiortly proceed to LaheJ.
Letter* received from the old Sultan prove that he must
be nearly blind#
3 * The Kadi of Behan writing on 19th November
19x6 states that another messenger carrying 2 letter*
to t,ie aadre*s oi the Be si dent from the Imam passed
throu^i his borders and wa* passed on to a friend of
hi* at Ni*ab (Aulaki territory)# This friend is the no
torious Saiyid Mahomed bin Mahomed al Haddad whose pro
clivities are decidedly pro-Turk, It is not clear why
the Kadi allowed him to go there. The Kadi is curious
to know the content* of these letter*. He say* that he
will be rejoiced to know that the British Government
ha* entered into friendly relations with the Imam, and
this wilx clear the situation so far as his own relation*
with the Imam are concerned - for the Zeidi intrigue*
toward* Beda, Behan and the H.E. direction had caused
his flight from that quarter, (Vide paragraph 8 of Week
ly Letter dated 21 st September 1916).
Kadi reports what has be*n bruited from
other quarter* that the Iraam , • son in conjunction with
the Hashid wa Bakil were besieging San a.
Lieutenant Hlader, Political Office^South Bed Sea
Patrol # who arrived to-day from Jizan report* that a
Hashid Sheikh now in Jizan had denied the truth of thi*
story. It* corroboration or denial will shortly be
forthcoming.
The Kadi further reports the arrival of a
Meccan envoy - one Sheikh Mahomed bin Ibrahim who ha*
lectured to all and sundry in praise of the Sherif and
against the Turk*. The *aid envoy will proceed to Ha-
dramaut. The Kadi *ay* the envoy 1 • word* had inclined N
th* Arabs of that quarter to espous* the Sherif** cause f
and