New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-15
REVOLT OF ARABIAN TRIBES.
HOW HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF IN TfE STRUGGLE
AGAINST THE TURK.

HOW HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF IN TIE STRUGGLE
AGAINST THE TURK.
The latest revolt of the Yemen Arabs will not sur
nrise those who remember that such rebelhons are
chronic in Arabia and that outbreaks are ever re-
curing of the hatred on the part Of the purebood-
cd Arabs against their cOnquerors the turks VINO
came from Monaghan deserts, and whose falth IN
the Koran has never been trusted by the direct
descendants OF the adhcrents Of the Mecca Ma
homet Everything indicates that the present
rebellion which according to the latest dispatches,
has already caused the killing and woundlng of
about six thousand Arabs and Turkish soldiers. will
be promptly suppressed by the Sultans troops as
were the former revOlts
But 1t is still more certain that this rebellion will
not be the last one long as the ottoman system
Of governing the provinces OF Yemen and Hedjar
IS not improved. Efforts are being made constantly
IN that direction by Sultan Abdul Hamid: but his
orders are not executed. thanks to the prevalence
Of corruption and the baksheesh system among
Turkish officials OF the highest and OF the lowest
grades. For Instance rumors OF threatening
revolt In Yemen having reached Constaninople
orders were sent to dismiss and punish many func-
tionaries who practised too well In that province
the ironical advice Virtue after money"
4 convoy of these officials arrived recently from
Samoa to Hodeida where they embarked for Con-
stantinople together with about eighty political
prisoners who to spend the remainder Of their
lives at Tripoli, In syria. But q Few weeks later
most Of these people were free They knew how TO
purchase their liberty. just had been done by
one OF the richest Arabs in Yemen FL lladji Ahmed
Obevd 81 Harasie He had expressed too loudly his
anti-Tirksh sentiments. and had been sent I'm exile
ia Mecca whence ne returned three months later
70 Samoa after having bought his freedom for
10000.
The actual revolt began IN the district of Assir.
at a place named the Terrible Gate" because OF
us almost mpregnable position in the Yemen
Maintains The rebels are under the command Of
Imam SeId NOhammed Ben ffam1. and they have
the Red Sea. give chase to small Turkish mer-
chant vessels and maintain communication with
the places whence they draw their supply OF guns
and ammunition. That Will serve only To prOlong
their resistance for the ottoman Sovereignty can
not be I'm danger unless the Arab "khahlbs.' or
tribes should unite against IT, In q simultan"ous
effort But such union is hardly possible. so
long as there exists between those tribes personal
hatred deeper than that which they feel toward
the Turkish conqutror. ,.,,, -, -,
The success OF Marshall Abdullah Pacha, who
has stormcd the fortified positions OF Chnlil ana
Sassih seems already to indicate definite sue
cess even before the last Victories which are re-
por,ed by the dispatches IA having been won by
the Turks So long there Is only ono tribe OF
The yemen Arabs In revolt. there is no chance for
n eerols offensive war against the Otiomans. ThHt
tribe occupies strong positions at nrst. Nhon the
soldiers are dislodecd from these they form their
inks again and are beaten second or third time.
of the regular Ottoman troops. At least II Is In
this manner that the many rcvolts which have
broken out IN the Yemen have gone forward, and
have been subdued up to the present time