File 756/1917 Pt 2-3 ‘ARAB BULLETIN Nos 66-114’ [‎403r] (814/834)

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Requests from the sheikhs of the Lower Yemen for British
protection continue to arrive at Aden. Abul Haq ibn Mohammed
el Aghbari, the Zindani sheikhs, and the Naqibs of Dhu Moham
med and Dhu Husein are amongst the latest applicants.
A Turkish Bimbashi, Kudsi Khassen, recently arrived in
Egypt from Basrah for repatriation.
In 1917 he was stationed at Sanaa and was sent on two
journeys to Medina. The route he took was via Ebhah, Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Dawasir, Riadh, and thence to Medina. His first journey was
successfully completed, but he carried only despatches. The
second journey commenced in November 1917, when he left
Sanaa accompanied by another Turkish officer, an orderly, and
an escort of Qahtan from Ibn Dhuleim, for the purpose of fetching
Government money from Medina. At Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Dawasir his escort
was changed by Ibn Humeidan for Dawasir Bedouin, and whilst
traversing the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. his companion officer was murdered. The
Bedouin caught him smoking and also found that he could not
I speak Arabic; they therefore shot him on the ground that he was
la Christian. Kudsi stated it was only his assiduous reading o
^the Qoran and his knowledge of Arabic that saved his own life.
Riadh was reached in April 1918 ; he stayed there a couple of
nights disguised as a Bedouin (as he was during the whole of his
journey) and set out for Medina, Ibn Baud not having been made
aware of his visit. Mr. Philby was in Riadh at the time.
Two days after leaving Riadh he was fetched back by slaves
whom Ibn Baud had sent for him, and Kudsi thinks that Ibn
Baud learnt of his presence in the vicinity through Mr. Philby,
just after he had set off.
At Riadh his Turkish orderly died, and he was kept there
as a prisoner for a year and given ordinary Bedouin food.
He left in April 1919 for Bahrein with letters to the British
authorities from Ibn Baud asking for him to be returned to
Turkey. . ,
Shaukat Bey, a native of Baghdad, who has been m the
Turkish Civil Service in the Yemen for about twenty years,
arrived at Hodeidah from Bajil about the middle of March. He
reports having seen in Abu Hadi’s hands a communication (of
unknown date) from the Imam and Mahmud Nadhim addressed
to Seyyid Abdul Qadir and other Seyyids and tribesmen of the
Tihamah. It stated that the Imam had no desire to cause
bloodshed among Moslems and that he intended to suspend
operations against the Tihamah people. The Imam proposed
to appoint Seyyid Abdul Qadir ruler of the whole of the Tihamah,
and to assist him with guns, ammunition, and money on condition