ملف ٧٠٥/١٩١٦ الجزء ١ "انتفاضة عربية - تقارير" [و‎‎٣‎٥‎١] (٤٩٤/٢٤٩)

One »*nt *lib a party toward* *4tfalls oarly in May. Mator four
otbor* wont ftorto towards iatjoria on tho tax-col looting expedition
montioned above,
mo British it is true, have only 1U ^ino at bhoikh tUwan to
oppose the Turkish 23, but it is t* be rsswtaorod that the tUrko
kave far groator diffieulty in supplying SM»unition, that tho
isaterial result of their (§ma has so far boon snail, and that
every &in opposite Aden means one loss against tho Idrisi.
About 4oe»h0tt lUrka soon to have boon withdrawn to hahoj from
Jubar and the nei hhourin; district at tis* end of :iay.
The reason givsn, and believed in Aden, is that the troops would
otherwise havo deserted owing to the intense heat which had
prevailed in the dheikh uthman region. Tito Turkish forces contain
•ing Men are given in the latest report ae 1,000 Turkish infantry