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A4«n but in th# interior g«ncrallj taring th* pact w#alc hac
b«*n the suceeccec coorei by the §yye4 24rici in the Beni
Abe and Beni Jama regions recently.
fhe capture by hie foro* # of Lohiya an4 SI Atn on
the 16th instant hae giren great eatiefaction in hie country
an4 generally throughout the dietriote near Aden.
| event supervening on the series of engagaaents
in which the Turks Have suffered serious Issees is bound to
act as an incentive to his troops in their future operations.
** هذه التواريخ تقريبية appears that the syyed I trial probably employed
mainly the Beni fcarwan tribeanen in his recent operations.
A rumour states that Hasir Mafckoth has been relieved of his
command, but we have received nothing official on this point
from either the Xdrisi or from ayyed tustapha, and Captain
Lewis a.B. who has been operating with the Xdrisi troops
until after the capture of Atn, reports that he heard nothing
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to that effuct. He icnew that NiSiP Uabkoth was gt edi.
fhe arrival of 1,200 Yam troops in K*di on February
12th, with 300 riding oonels and 30 horses has bean reported,
this force should be useful in pressing operations in the
direction of Zahra to the east of Lohiya and towards £adiya
in the south.
One of our secret Agents heard at J. Sas that the
imam Yahya had demanded from Bheilch Mahomed hassan his son
as hostage before consenting to furnish him with Zeidi
soldiers to assist him, but that the Sheikh was unwilling
to comply.
A r^approac*va*nt of any kind between the irama and
Sheikh Mahomed Hass an, is improbable, it is, at the same