File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎462r] (278/633)

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A* following i« o summary of the news re
ported since the de.p.tch of my last letter dated 10*
March 1920,
i'lUaUA .
Xhe political officer, Uodeids, telegr^n.c
on the ath ih.tant that »a lmmi» force had captured
Ohal on the uhra frontier and that it was raovln,; on
Jftbel burs to relieve the besieged party there,
iubse -uently heavy fighting was reported on the
Mathslli pl i« between ubal nd BSh^h ne-y J)uir.al«,
shortage of am-runition among the >hras who lost Id boxes
of am lunitioa at ubal it was thou ht mi^it leed ^ o.
eisive results and to the fall of *ejil which the people
were alrei dy leaving for lahi i>nd Man.aira.
■ y r0 m the latest telegram it a»i»e*rs.however. that
the Idrisi and the ?*hrae have recaptured ob*l and that
the del die have retreated to Jabel oaf am. the Imemie
force which took part in this figntlng eoneisted ef 800
regulars end 1400 tribesmen, the Idri.i force con.i.ting
,f 600 Idrisi men amd five thousand t uhra tribesmen.lhe
dumber of the uhrs.o is apparently «n axagiOt »ion.
aytd Abdul i adir is reported to be still in
karawa. He ha. refused t. go to Bajil in spit, of th.
repented requests received ‘ rcr ' ! the (ij ' i 1 e ' >r
tire there,
ijhewkat hey. e native of Bagdad who ha. been in
the iurkish eivil -jervlee in th. !•««■ fr about 20
y.rr. arrived at U.deids from Bajil lately. He wa. quite