File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎440r] (234/633)

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lli« following is a summary of the newa reported
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alnoe the despetoh of rvy last letter*
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23o reports have been received from Hodeida this
week* A rumour is current here that the Idrisi hae occu«
pied Zabeed and that fighting ie in progress at hais and
other places in the neighbourhood*
AhiDN P HQ Tiij CY OKA Tk ^
t/ith reference to the aliegtid intention of the Imam
to advance on Lahej via the Jiaktari and tiie iiubehi countries
reported in my last letter, the Abdali ^ultan has now been
imormed from tJie same source that the seneme has bee.>n post
poned by order of the Imam*
The Imam has alfco sent orders to his Amil at Jalila,
Jaiyid fahya, to postpone further operations in that qu-rter^
The Amil is, ho^ever f reported to h^ve moved from Jalila to
hala with ibO men en route to I/ubyat with the object of com-
fiscating the valuable effects of the hala people removed J,o
huby at * Another report states that the Amil sent a letter
to the Mansab of . ubyat, uaiyid Ali Uadwan 9 demanding ^ 300/-
as a tax on the property *nd tlireatening to confiscate the
property in case the tax is not paid* The hynsab replied
promising to pay the amount and asking the Amil not to send
Zeidis to jAibyat as their presence would frighten the people
and lower his own prestige* fho families of the Amir of
Dala and of his brothers, who h, d been removed to uby ; t
after the occupation of by the Heidis, are reported to
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have left for Tafwa,