ATTACK BY YEMEN

Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28182, 22 January 1957, Page 9

ATTACK BY YEMEN

Tribal Leader Killed

(Rec. 11 p.m.) ADEN, Jan. 21. An important Yemeni tribal leader was killed by Aden Protectorate tribesmen in the Beihan area on Saturday, an official communique in Aden reported today.

The Beihan area, about 150 miles north of the port of Aden, has been one of the main trouble spots in recent raids by tribesmen from the Red Sea kingdom of Yemen into the Aden Protectorate. Beihan itself lies a few miles on the protectorate side of the border between the two territories. The fiarc.-up on the border had been accompanied by an intensified campaign by the Yemen for possession of the protectorate. which it claims is an integral part of the Red Sea kingdom The official communique said: •It has been reported from Beihan that Sheikh Abd Rabo Bin al Awadhi was killed by Protectorate tribesmen on Saturday afternoon whilst leading a Yemeni raiding party well inside Beihan territory, at a place called Ata bat, near Alain.

“Sheikh Abd Rabo Bin al Awadhi was one of the main instruments of Yemeni aggression along the Beihan frontier and for the last few years has been responsible for fomenting trouble between his tribe and the Al Fajm tribe on the Protectorate side oi the frontier.

“A report has also been received that another Yemeni raiding party left Harib, in the Yemen, for the Protectorate, yesterday afternoon.’’