THE YEMEN REVOLT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 1, 26 June 1911, Page 5

THE YEMEN REVOLT.

A TURKISH SETBACK. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Constantinople, June 23. A strong force of rebels surprised the Turkish troops near Gran, Yemen, killing a thousand nnd wounding five hundred. The Turks lost six guns and 2000 rifles. THE FIGHTING IN ARABIA. NEWS BY MAIL. London, April 10. The trouble in the Yemen, the extreme southern territory of Arabia, where the Arab tribes have for so long been in revolt against Turkish rule, has broken out afresh, and severe fighting has taken place. So fur success has rested with the rebels, and tho Turkish Government, troops have been defeated. -iiere are about 50.000 Turkish troops in or ou the way to the Yemen province. Tliev are under the command of I/./.et Pasha. News of the fighting is very much delayed, as it is taking place in the interior, where the means of communication are bad. and messages have to be lirought to Hodediih, on the Red Sea coast, sent thence to Aden, through to the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, and then telegraphed to England. Heavy fighting took place during the la=t few days of March. The Government, forces were defeated at many points, the towns of Amran amd Mi war fell info the rebels' hands, and Sana, the chief town in the interior of the province, is in danger. Some of the guns of the Tnrkisn nrm.v were captured, and were used by (lie rebels to shell the defeated force. Siege has been laid to Sana, and a resolute defence is being made. The Arabs are bringing up all the guns they have captured, and are .shelling the place. .Natives who have arrived on the coast from the interior bring stories of a Turkish disaster in which nearly two thousand troops were cut to pieces by a stratagem near Yerin. which is in the interior, and seventy miles south' of They also say that (he town of Naderi has fallen, and that out of three regiments only fifteen men escaped death at the hands of the Arabs, '1 ne rising of Albanians against Turkish rule is assuming serious proportions. When the tribesmen first revolted they reduced several garrisons to submission ami captured several blockhouse.--. The Turkish Government troops were at first able to reverse all these victories, but tne rebels are again winning. They have again surrounded the town of Tuzi, from which tliev had been expelled. At Kastiuli the garrison is in desperate straits, and the Turkish Government is being urged to send twenty battalions of troops and a force of infantry to stamp out the rebellion. The Montenegrins are again accused of assisting the Albanians. A column marching to the relief of Tuzi has been fiercely attacked. Ei-dity men were killed and 120 captured by the besiegers, who intercepted the force. That the Albanians are in a desperate mood may be gathered iiv the fact that many women are among the dead left behind after (he various battles. They appeared to have been fully equipped with arnis.