File 3300/1916 Pt 1 'Aden News Letters:- (June 1916-Dec. 1916)' [‎464r] (307/348)

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AiliQi KiiBIlBliCY,
loth Juno 1916 ,
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Xhere are i&wy indications now of a dee ire
on the part of the Arabe to turn against the Turk and
harraee him generally. The Arab* are cert?*ittly More
free in the intercourse with us and store inclined to
ooxsrnit thesaaelYee to act with us a* against the Turke.
2 . inuring the current week a ^ar mik dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. came
into Aden with two of the Bheilche sons on board. The
dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. was seised as dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. traffic frost there had been
prohibited. A search produced some letters, two tele*
graph instruments, a Turkish post bag seal in tact
and two baskets of Turkish easaanition. The nhexkhs
sons were interviewed on the following morning and
the following info r mat ion elicited. They had attack
ed Bait el tfakih about the 13 th instant with a force
of about JO rifles* mor to attacking they had cut
and removed some considerable length of the telegraph
line. Th-~y found ten Turks in the plaoe, of they
state they killed four. They removed two of the tele-
graph instruments ^nd brought them away. About the
8 MB date somebody set fire to a iioeque at Wnrawah in
W hich ttie Susies had stored a considerable qumtity or
.mmnitlon r«moT«d fro. Hodeidah. Yhe Be do wins looted
the place afterwarde and the aacunltion the ZrnnmV'e
brouiht in wae recovered from the Bedowino. it 1*
Turkish :wd hae the appearance of having he n burnt.
Two daye prior to the attack on Bait «1 iakih the
came tribe captured a Turkish poet bag,two daye nuroh
to tiie west of Kaduba between iiod-idah ind Bait el
kaklh