The Yemen Revolt.

Evening Star, Issue 8773, 14 March 1892, Page 3

The Yemen Revolt.

Nows has been received in Vienna of the siege of Sana, in Yemen, by the Arab insurgents It began on the 14th of July and ended on the 10th of October, and more than 40,000 insurgents took part in it. While the besiegers kept up a continual bombardment a terrible famine prevailed, Every man who left the city bad his nose or ears cutoff, and was driven back to Sana. A Jewish merchant and his two grown-up sons, having urgent need of leaving the town, fell into the hands of the insurgents and were all three badly mutilated, the merchant’s throat being eventually cut and the sods sent back to tell the tale. The Turkish garrison behaved splendidly, for, though officers and men were half starved, they were on the walls day and night, and kept the enemy under control. The chief of the insurgents was Mollah Salah Eddin, a native of the city of Saadah, who proclaimed all over the country that he would convert the 60,000 Jews of Yemen to Islam or would extirpate them. During the last days of the siege the insurgents had approached the city to within a thousand feet. On the 10th October a Turkish army of relief appeared, and soon got the mastery of the insurgents. On the following evening the Turkish commander, Achmed Feizi Pasha, entered the city in triumph, where he was welcomed as a saviour, especially by the Jews. No quarter was given to prisoners either by the Turks or by the Insurgents, and so the battle was ollowed by a terrible butchery. Peace feigned in Yemen when this news left Sana.