File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎393r] (141/633)

tiiea partly on the loot of the hostile tribes or the hospitality
of friendly ones, throu h whoee country they pat>s« fhey are
paid no regular salaries, but a share in the booty they gather,
the remount getting as much as the man. fheir manner of fighting
is to charge in a compact body through fire or odds and engage
the enemy in a hind to hand fight, fhey give no quarters while
fighting, fhey refrain from the killing of women, children and
old men or the destruction of crops or fruit trees, fhey
faithfully observe their words, treaties or gov Hants, fhey
observe their religious practices most assiduously on the field
of battle or while encamped.
fhe Commander of the Uchwan troops is Abdul aiz, a
cousin of Bin Saud, He holds oommand jointly with Q&sl
Abdullah Haahid. fhey are still at Hahn but it appears that
two representatives of theirs with two others from the Habia
and Hafei&a and two from the Hahtan Chief visited the Idrisi at
Jisan on the Ebth July.
Captain i?azludiin says that the Humane was uncompro
mising enemies of the xlng of the Hadjas and they do not
make a secret of their ohief aim whiah is to wtuet the holy
haaba from the hands of a person whom they describe as a monster
of Iniquity and on infidel. It is surmised by Captain i'aaludain
that the object of ibn Baud in occupying Bejran and a part of
Asir io to throw an effective barrier between the i-ing of the
juedjaz and the Imam, who, he thinks, are in alliance. Moreover
by occupying the territories of the Beni 3hihr and Pharan, the
two moat powerful tribes of isir (after the hahtans) who are
believed to be artisans ox xlng Hussein, he desires to deprive
the -uing altogether of any assistance from sir.
naif
In my letter of 16th July last (page E) I referred to
the fighting between the fafais and the i?adli. I have now
received an micorifiaiaed report that the fafais have approached
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