File 3300/1916 Pt 1 'Aden News Letters:- (June 1916-Dec. 1916)' [‎451r] (281/348)

up to rldioulo for not going against it*
Letters received from the Kotalhi fc$hei)ch t ad«
dressed to me and to the Multan of Lahej 9 show that the
Kotaitoi vent to Lahej and was received with honour by
Baeed Pa^ha; that he $ade his submission to him and
entered into an agreement with him. He stayed there
seven days. In his letter he explains that he is still
our loyal and devoted friend, but that guile had to he
met by guile and the only way to save himself and his
country was subterfuge*
I enclose you copies of letters received from
the Kaiti Sul ten and from the Upper Aulaki Sheikh*
During my visit to i?okalla in Kay the Sultan told me
that his Minister who has great influence with the trib«
/
and has the Sultan’s confidence was away on a deputa
tion to find out the stats of affairs in the Hadramaut*
His report is now furnished. The Aulaki letters dated
some time back corroborate his report* Both speak very
etrongly on the subject of the iSaidi danger,and both
letters appear to me to show that the Imam’s Zaidis and
Turks are working together and endeavouring to raise s
f Jihad’• The Kaiti Sultan has again asked us for 6
breach loading guns,even if on loan only*
It eeeras to me that the best way to mset dang*)
of this combined Imamic-Turkish movement would be to
Strengthen the hands of the Haiti Sultan, I have alread:
recommended that he should be given 2 Mountain guns witJ
ammunition with this object in visw, and I now strongly
urge that he should be given a battery of six guns with
ammunition*
Since above was written I have received further
communications dated 20 th June from the Ifcaiti sultan
on the same subject. They cannot be translated in
time