File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎391r] (137/633)

dbeiJKfo of ilosa. fhe Asaietaat xiosicient s .ya that ^heikJx
Kasir of ahelJch iaid who waa eiEa oned by aheiich All
Otha&a pay tribute* refused to do bo and informed the latter
that he should come and tahe it, as he himself will never
willingly send it and will resist to the best of his ability,
xhe Assistant liesident says that there is general dissatisfac
tion every/here against the Imam.
lighting is reported to have taAen place between the
Imam’ s men and the «iashwali # a sub-tribe outside the :?ubehi
border of our Protectorate.
xieports continue to come in of the nervousness
caused at » l )ana in consequence of Bin Baud’s movements.
Shafaie are said not to have responded to the Imiva’s call
for service, fhe i of hala writes that the people are
expecting the British Jovemaent to males a forward move
now that the xt&idis are in a fix.
ABIh .
Captain Pazluadin in a letter dated ird .ugust 1920
confirms the news of toe occupation of Afeha by Bin Baud. Irom
the details given it appears that lifter the attach by haaao
bin Aidh on the iuhail garrison reported in ay last letter
the Idrisi ashed Ibn Baud for assistance and reoeived a
favourable and ready response* A large force of utowuns
estimated at betwe n 12 and 14 thousands* with about 1500
men from the -ahtan and the xfobia and aifeida tribes under
the leadership of Mohamad ibn ad Allan!, the chief Bheikh
of hah tons, im old and faithful partisan of the Idrisi,
appeared on the confines of \bha on 21st July 1920 and offered
the following five conditions to Hasan bln aidhi-
1. he should resign the fairate of Asir ft once* but
should be allowed to remain Sheikh of his own
tribe* the Beni lughaid.
/2, f e aurkish