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and such amounts as he may be able to
squeeze from the Customs and taxes of the
Vilayet, he will endeavour to do what he can.
The f inance Minister has received instructions
to furnish the £T.30,000 required by Ramzan.
The Military Attachd at Constantinople states
that there are indications that the Yemen
revolt has been practically suppressed. The
Ottoman troops seem now to be masters of all
the country between Sanaa and Sada, and
the Imam is being driven from place to place.
An Irade has been issued for the disband
ing and relegation to their homes of the four
teen battalions of Jerusalem and Tripoli (Syria)
Redifs of the 5th Army Corps. These will be
landed at Akaba. It is reported that the
Ottoman Government are making enquiry for
transports to carry 10,000 or 15,000 troops to
Akaba. This confirms the recent news that
the Yemen revolt is now ended {vide para
graph 8 of the Memorandum for November).
9. Information has been received
from Sir N. O’Conor that the Persian
Embassy has recently been making active
representations to the Porte on the subject
of the district of Vaznah and Soujboulak
having been entered by Turkish troops, but
has failed to obtain a satisfactory account
of the points in dispute. A considerable
portion of the Turko-Persian frontier has
never been definitely fixed. The Commission
appointed for that purpose in 1857, whose
work continued till 1865, failed in many
instances to agree, and separated after its
members had sent in individual reports to
their respective Governments. The settle!
population in the disputed territory of Vaznah
seem to prefer Turkish to Persian rule as
affording it a slightly greater measure of
security from nomad depredations. Persian
tribes, however, continually overrun it, and
legard it as theirs, while the Persian author
ities endeavour to explain away the testimony
of the residents by asserting that the Ottoman
Government has suborned the Imams and
headmen of the villages in the district. The
Turkish Minister for Poreign Affairs informed
Sir N. O’Conor that, although no actual
delimitation has been effected, there is no real
doubt as to the position of the frontier, and that
his Government have proposed the despatch
of a Joint Commission, for the purpose of
making it out; but that the Persian Govern-
nmnt prefer to maintain the present state of
n5 a ! rS \ i he Persian re i° illder ^ that the
Idirkish Government insist on the acceptance
of the separate report of the Ottoman Commis
sioner, Dervish Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , which they have never
ceased to contest as inaccurate and inadmissible
On the report of the local authorities that
Persian troops were collecting in the neighbour
hood, the lurks appear to have sent four