File 3300/1916 Pt 1 'Aden News Letters:- (June 1916-Dec. 1916)' [‎329r] (37/348)

3 * 0ur friend D Mahomad bin Mahom«d v*ho wt.«
iBpridonad by th« Turka in Lahuj from whom munition,
our gift, w,j.a stolen by the Turks hue come in again with
a programme for at** co-Oj.arcitign against the Turke.
These pxogr&mmes ’.viix oe d^tui-Xed in the next week*&
Xetter #
The Rherifian Bnvoy Suiyid Mahomed bin Aiuwi ai
Sekkaf Who i 8 styled M Bhoikh al Sada* has also come on a
mission from the Sherlf of Mecca to our Arab proteges ^ na
t0 zhe ^hie Sheikh ie a very influential man and a
learned one* More will be reported next week on this
Mission «
Please refer to paragraph 3 Weeky Letter
d. t id l^th >Tot ember l91o # The Indian Assistant Resident
has returned from Makalla. The Sultan is in train of
v ^eifying the tribemen of A 1 Kathiri but stigmatises
the 2 Kathiri Sultans as mon of straw. I think he under
estimate© their influence. He doe© not press for arms and
ammu nition at this juncture. He will,!/ necesbury, ask
for a loan later on* but he i© very anxious to get a
monetary present from Government to help in his work of
pacification ef the country. I have recommended he be
giv-n Rs.^ 0 , 000 /— fox* the tract is important and beyond
the range of close supervision owing to its distance
and the turbulent oh a*acter of the Hinterland elonfsnen*
3* The Fadli Sultan, Husain bin Ahmed f prays God
that the British Government miy win the war. His geomcui-
oer (see paragraph 4 of Weekly Letter dated 4th Hovember
191d) ©o predict©. He was forced he says to befriend the
Tu rks but his calamities are, he admits, the result.
\
V, ^
o. On hearing a report that the Turks intended to
send a party to Hhukra to capture the Sultan 1 s (Padli)
grandson