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tribe is sufficiently secured, not oniy by tbe
proposed Turkish acceptance o »
to the desert, but also by the f^t that the
Aulakiwere included m the lists
cantons communicated to the Porte
and in September 1903.
(For the proceedings of the Imam, see
Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. .)
TURKISH ARABIA A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. .
8. (Vide paragraph 4 of the Memorandum
for February 1905.) The caravan tract between
Menakha and Suk-el-Khamis is reported to be
unsafe owing to the rebels having command of
the heights between the two abovementioned
places. It is rumoured that the insurgents
had invested Menakha from the east, and that
the road further north of Suk-el-Khamis is
disturbed near a place called Buan. It is
reported that Sanaa, Yerim, and Ibb have
been captured by the Imam, and that part of
his force is approaching Kataba. The inter
ruption of the road between Sanaa and Khamis
has rendered it impossible for supplies to reach
the large body of troops stationed there from
the Hodeida side. The mortality from starva
tion among the troops is supposed to be consi
derable, and the price of food has risen to siege
rates. The Hashid and Bekil tribes inhabiting
the country north of Sanaa have risen, and
the rebellious movement is still further
developing, and important posts, such as Jebel
Sharki, appear to be about to fall into the
hands of the insurgents. The delay in the
arrival of reinforcements, and the mutinous
conduct of the Redifs, who have reached
Cumfuda, has caused the question of arming
native levies, such as the Yam tribes, to be
raised again. Numbers of Turkish deserters
from the Yemen are entering Aden, and the
Resident’s suggestion that, owing to the preva
lence of plague there, they should be deported to
Piiaeus has been approved by the Govern
ment of Bombay. His Majesty’s Government
have concurred in the proposal to receive at
Dthala and treat well the Kaimmakam and
other refugees from Kataba, passing them on to
Aden, and agree that it is undesirable to permit
refugees to go elsewhere in our protectorate, and
that there must be no possible excuse to the
Imam to attack or pursue them within our
w^r 8 * r ,^ ener ^ . Al1 ^ eza Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , formerly
Wall of Monastir, has been appointed Imperial
Reform Commissioner in the Yemen. 1
PERSIAN GULF The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
9. Maskat .—On the 27th Fehmn™
iGOS, Major Grey addressed the Government
of India on the subject of protection afforded
by the French Vice-Consul in Maska t in tf
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