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G M. Press, Simla,—No. C277F.D.—
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17 AUG 1917
21 SEP 191/
23rd Weckljrletter.
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Dated Aden Residency, the 1st (received the 15th) August 1917.
From—M ajor-General J. M. Stewart, C.B<, Political Resident at Aden,
To-The Hon’dle Mr. A. H. Grant, GS.-L, C.I.E., Foreign Secretary to the Goverti-
ment of India in the Foreign and Political Department, Simla.
The only news of any importance received this week from the Yemen is a letter
from the Yusufiyin Shaikh {ride paragraph 3 of weekly letter, dated
19171 to the Abdali Sultan. The Shaikh sends a letter addressed to him by Naqi
Hassan binQasrim Abu Has, brother of Abu Raa who has been failed by the Turks,
in which the Naqib asks the Yusufiyin for assistance m men and ammum
According to the Naqib the fighting has already started and the Arabs have bee"
successful at Di-Sefal and A1 Ka’ida. He says that all the Rifal el Mashriq
, the eastern tribes) have risen and that 700 of them have already arnved and
3,000 more are on their way.
The ATisufiyin Shaikh says that he has built a shell-proof dar (fort) and as s
the Abdali Sultan to try and get him monetary assistance from us to enable him
enlist men to fight the common foe.
Kamaran reports that the general effect of the bombardment ^ Hodenfah .s
i TI,„ sufferers are however, as we anticipated, the Britisn inuian
Prisoners These me n are now reported to be treated actually as prisoners and kept
under guard about 2 miles out of Hodeidah during the day and m the military
barracks at night.
Rpnorts of continued unrest in the Yemen continue, but for the minute it is
impossible to piece the stories together and form any definite opinion as to who is the
moving spirit.
Sultan Abdul Kadir (Fadthli) reports that Saeed Pa^a deputed 3 Fad h
Sultans to go to the old Sultan Hussain at As Surna and tell him to come and
Abyan. The Sultan promised to come down early in Augus .
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