File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎616r] (586/633)

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a oana Ar *b who ia the iieoretgjry, and was formerly
Manager of Endowed Rotates, ayed Abdulla bin Ibrahia^ one of
the laaa's family, who is Wasir, ayed Kaaaim tl Assi, the man
T ^*^ted baio Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. at Lahej, and ayed Abbas, one of the
Imamic family of the house of El ttehdi. Of these Abdulla el
Amri is the most influential* The object ef Passim el Assl 9 s
▼isit te bald ^asha was te induce to go up country, and to
secure the Turkish arms and amnunition*
Haj hutf says the Imam is very anxious to get possessien
of the Tihaaa and the Lower Yemen, but he thinks he does net
want to encroach on the British protectorate* The Imam thinks
the British wish to take the Tihama and the Lower Yemen for
themselres* Haj Lutf considers that if Mahmud Kedlm could be
remored from ban a, there would be ne further difficulty in
arFiring at a settlement with the Imam, whoso Arab adrioers
are not all anti-Jlritiah* Haj Lutf says the Imam issues ne
proclamations or letters of anti*British nature: on the con*
trary ho speaks well of the British*
Csprsttl who used to lire at Bana has now left* Haj Lutf
has heard that j£he intends to open a business at Hodeida* He
says there are no other Europeans at Bana*
from the nows roceirod by the Political Officer,
Hodeida, it ap oars that the Imam hao notified to all Arabs
that all Turkish Government stores which they may purchase
will eventually bo confiscated by him*
8 # Ohalib Boy is reported to have sold 1200 p$rs rifles
to Arabs O 25 dollars a rifle and to hare appropriated a
quarter of the proceeds for himself as a sot off against
arrears af salary duo to him*
9 ^ Delegates are reported to have boon sent by the Imam
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to visit the byods and Lhoikhs in the Tdhama with a view to
inducing them to accept his domination but J3ci v doee r not e ?
to have met with much success. Tha kiaraniks Abus and ^tura
Bhsikhs and others hava applied ts ms for as si atones against
the Imam, but I have declined to interfere on their behalf,
though I have sanctioned a gift ef 10,000 reunds of ammunition