File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎608r] (570/633)

under sheikh had ^:on« to to tiJio poooooslon
of the 4 Turkish guns in possession of Ali at>isuij& # Thoir
actual r« oral has not )*9%n yot hoard of # hut it is pretty
certain that the Xnam has them in view* Ali Othaaan oho
wants to derivo some benefit out of those tuns sent his
brother to the Imaon and his brother-in-law to Perisi to
find out shat they could obtain for htnding over the funo
to either party* Abdulla ttioor who came hero for tho pur-
po*o wao offored Ro.l # 000 to cover tho ooot of transport
etos of tho guns to tho soa coast but he asked for Hs* 100 C
as no good oould bo served by spending such a largo oum #
Abdulla ^ioor hao boen informed that under tho terms of
Amirtiee the guns legally belonged to us* enc ve cid not
consider it noessoary to pay anything to get them* Ha
oould therefore depart &e soon as he liked*
A hodeida report says that All Gthmwa has r* :
to hand over the guns to Imam’s emissaries that wore sent
to receive thms* /
This Chief is now reported to bo really not 11.
dl«po*«4 tevards th« Jim* D«reonaUy wh9«« Suif-.l-
XsXaa h«« b««n mhklne OT«rtur#i to hi* but would not
like to Zoldi troo^o or administrator* vit>in Me
Unit*. It In stated that fcubawnad Wasir jays about
3-4000 dollars monthly to tho Imam, hut this is doubtful.
Muhammad Ka.lr SSMjbll has not como to terM with B.ahM*
«mUJB jyO KAi>lK KUkfilL uy iAXlA,
ysdhsi
ja) who oa*o hero
haji bin baloh a! lootfehi Of ^sha (noux AdaJOWP
ia hero sometime a«o to ask for Brltishpi otootl
stated that thougm —
against the Xmu*. they would not mind ■ ■
•mounts periodically prorided he left t?
them alone*
Haughabl .