File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎379r] (113/633)

of »niT>«r» go ncuilt.d in sulttot^d spots on the outskirts
of the town* (n thv;ir entry, the , k kbrr.-ns o^rried out a
In tho course of this the chief sufferers wsrs the stran*
gers, nearly all of whom wsrs ex-^urkish officials and
their families # who had none with whom to take refuse in
the eurrounulnfr country* The to til ac.eunt of loct col
lected by the Akhwans from Abha was 3b t CCC dsliars f out
of which l/bth rent to the Akhwan/ *sit-el- tl. The balan
ce was distributed a?Pon^pt ths Akhwan troops* The Idrioi
troops did not ohare the booty*
early alt the Turkish arms and ammunition in Abha
were distributed by Hasan ibn Aidh amongst the Kabials
before his 1 ifht from the town 9 and the remnant was taken
f ' T y w Akhwtdfi ' rtit-el- al« After the surrender of
Hasan Aidh and Kahomed Abdul hehnun and their party to
ths Akhwane, they *«re brought to Abha and maae to dig
out the parte of b guns which they hnd concealed under
ground. Cf thess guns thrse small ones hare bscn tc ken
north by the \khw ns* Ohe remainder* which i re big guns*
being still at Abha*
The Akhwan Com? i ncur prohibited the burial of the
dead boaies of the people of Abha, killed in the town
the Akhwan trorp B# hundreds of whom are said to birre fal
len Aprey to this scourge*
be i nd a detachment of IfeC men to await the return of the
deputation which went to meet the Idrisi at iabia*
The total sum of money received by HatcOi Aidh from
aing Kuesein on different occasions since the Turkish
evacuation of Asir amounted to * 11 *( C t * The c.ing rljo
promised iiim Aunfida in the event cf his successful re«
volt against the larisi*
The Idrisi has received a present of two houses from
Ibn fraud and has sent him in return several bags of ricSf
and left them exposed* until an epidemic broke out azrongst
Cn their departure for the north the Akhwans left
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