NOT KNOWN FACTUAL STATEMENTS ABOUT TAIF

While his routines in the region aroused the suspicion of Ahmed Bey, Ghalib Pasha was unconcerned by so compact a drive. Abdullah secretly constructed up his army to 5,000 men. He then Slash the telegraph wires to town and took the offensive. All Hashemite assaults on town ended up repelled because of the mountain guns, and either side settled down