File 3300/1916 Pt 4 'Aden News-Letters. (1921-23)' [‎6r] (11/644)

!:i * Hodei4^h. hm®fa% inform me that he told Br.aroparkal
ihnt it w%» guile littpoea ihle to pereuade the Id rift I to
mcopt m Italic m p r»»«n tat lire * It would mppmr tfont
the Italians attmah great impovtmhm to tho help a
Consul would he adle te afford In obtaining salt and oil
ooaceseione*
I'he Audall Chief# one of our stipendiaries# submitted
to the la id is and Jr $ given than ? hes tages * ^o&ie of
hie relatives however have refused to submit to the
Eaidis and are said to have asked the Bedli for help In
Mn md mmmnit%m m fhe i adli dulten hw written to im
asking for a definite answer oe to whether or not we mmtm
to pro toot him against a possible invasion of hie country
by the Imam*
On the 2Sth heoember I sent tisjor Barrett in
•Comwallie** to fJiukrs# the hadli capital# to
reeseure hulten Abdul Hader # 3 took this opportunity to
send A military and 1 Air koree Offiaere to report on
the village and harbour mid the possibility of preparing
a landing ground tor aeroplanen,
the ^sidie In Bede «re mpdx : %od to have sent
ultimata, to Be thine { a tribe nominally under the fadlij#
the Bpier Auleqi Multan end to the Upper Aulnqi *»heikh*
the f irst nmea trite is reported to have rejected the
ulti^atw to them end to be preparing to resist the huidl*
in co-operation with kadii tribesmen*
Ihe 3ewer fefel fultan reports th^t the Beldie
In keda hm® moved a» far as 3>! hakhlb which Is wiUiin
the lower Yafai territory and that he has despatched e
party of hie non under hit? eon to watch their movements.