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Show REBELS ROUT . SOLDlK'OF : TlinULTAfj Itany Killed in Fierce Arab Attach in Vestern Arabia. HODEIDAH. Arabia. June IT (Via Aden. June 21). Rebele In great foros today surprised and cut up a Turkish column commanded; by Mahomed AH Paahn outside Oheesan. a town on tha Red sea about 10 mllee north of Mo- deldah. A tnouaand Tnnttsn . aoioiers were killed. Mahomed All Pasha la retreating. re-treating. The righting was ao desperate and at such dose quarters that to Turkleh fugitives are suffering froas dagger wounds. The survivors fled In disorder to uheesan, pursued by the rebels. The Turkish gunboat Sutebbe. Intending Intend-ing to shell the Arabs, shelled Oheesas Instead. - killing or wounding several hundred of the soldiers. The rebels captured four big guns, two Maxims. 2009 rifles snd a quantity of ammunition and ultimately ralreated. riheesan. near which rebellious Arabs muted the Turkish troops. Is a seaport of ihe Turkish vilayet of Yemen, la southwestern Arabia. Yemen Is a -nountalnous district, whose people are encaged chiefly In stock raising snd win) rre simost continuously In revolt agalnsl Turkish authority. To the north Is the vlleyel of Astr or Assyr. the cspttal of which. Anita. as recently captured by rebellious Arabs, who made prisoners of the Turkish garrison gar-rison c mnoed of JODO men. Subsequently a relief force waa sent otit from Mecca, hut whether it reached Abba has not been reported. At Ihe ame lime Isset Pashs. who hsd sup- frressed a revolt In Yemen, waa sent nio Aalr The moM recent uprising In Yemen appears to have developed while ti grst sham of the Turkish military strergth- n the southwest was occupied ulili Ihe rebels In Aslr. |