Hainhua of November 16th reportad:
"in uprising was staged by tribesmen in Musaimir, capital of the Haushabi sultanate in the British rigged-up “Federation of irab Emiratos of the South", according to a report from London quoting the paper "Scoteman" The British Ministry of Defence has admitted that British forces armed with armoured cara and field batteries from the Aden base to Musaimir to suppress the uprising together with the troops of the "faederation,"™
"The Scotsman seid that "There is little .doubt that thore is consid= orable dissatisfaction among many tribesmen” with the British colonial rule in the “fedoration™ set up in tho Aden protectorate." Under these circumst— ances, the paper said, the question was raised of just how long British troops could go on bolstering up the. feudal and corrupt regimes for the seka of protecting the iden base.