File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎529r] (412/633)

sallied forth wad engaged the enemy in a hintt to Ii. n<i
fight and had at last to retire haring exhausted all
the awiunition. The ieidis occupied and looted Al hue*.
The ^eidie oaoualtiee are put down aa ISO Kil.'d in-
one of the nafcibs of Meueatta,Saleh Uohtin Askar*
The death ef this nakih has so exasperated the Tafaie,
that they are said te be Joining in large numbers te
fight the Zeidls*
The lakibs draw ay attention to our obligations
under the treaty with them and ask for immediate re
lief. They remark • Sensible men say etoen will the
relief some and how long we will be promieed. You mi; t.
come out when you will find none ef us allTO*.
The 'fuflahi Sheikh alee draws ny attention ts his
treaty with us and asks me to send troops at once to
Bio Zeidis hare eont orders to the nephew of the
has already warned hie people to get a bul^><* .
and kill it before the Zeidie can do any damage in hie
Arabs of places ocoupiad by the ieidis in our
attaeks against other placet in the Proteetorate. lor
instance Dale people were used against the Ahl Ash-
jhaib and the latter against Halmin.
nn informant etatee that Amir Abdul Hamid,brot r
Th, informant says that during the last week the
eluding those In Maklan and Yafais SO which induced
itetalbi sheikh to remora his post on the Hardaba pass
and he has complied with the orders. me hotaibl ohei h
Of th«
Tillage of Dabab, -her. he had an interriew wi th th.
j^ila of Halmin and Al Ajud it mi k**
jmlx ef Dala*left *•* HalmU and thence to the
, of Dabeb, where he had m interriew wi th th.
,f Halmin *nd Al Ajud in *ioh ttm he adri ed
submit, me Amir's brother is said to be acting under