Chapter One: The Daudiyya Tribes Humiliation, the Othmaniya branch found it difficult. On the first of October 1905, the outposts, in turn, advanced to submit. And since he wanted to avoid any infringement on the rights of this mentioned district, and not to give any excuse to Sheikh Sidi Ben Sheikh to provoke a dispute with him, he refused to accept the submission of this branch, and wrote a letter to Sidi in which it was stated: "I have learned from the commander of Ras El Ma that the outposts have requested submission. And since I do not wish to take your people from you, I inform you that I have refused their request, unless you are not willing to have them; in any case, they can move around the Ras El Ma region, provided they remain at peace with our people." The situation remained thus until the end of November 1905, when news spread of the raids of the Riqqat and the Awlad Alush, who came with the intention of plundering various nomadic tribes in northern Afakien. As soon as the commander of Ras El Ma learned of the matter early, he gave orders to the subordinate tribes to approach the military bloc. The Awlad Alush were specifically targeting a branch of a concentration called the Othmaniya outposts, who were roaming between Timbuktu and Afakien. Therefore, to kill them, one of the blacksmiths of the Awlad Alush was collecting money in the Wusra, and presenting sheep towards the south, and their men were organizing to repel the invaders. Timbuktu, the commander of the region, was alerted at the first warning to assist them effectively. The Awlad Alush initially headed east, opposite northern Afakien, to attack the encampments of the concentration, which they believed were still in Tirikin. Then they suddenly turned south, where they seized two herds of camels belonging to the Othmaniya on the seventh of December. However, the men of the Othmaniya, fifteen in number, pursued them until they caught up with them in the evening, 70 km northwest of Timbuktu, and engaged them in a battle in which they defeated them. Their chief fled, leaving twelve dead and carrying three wounded, while only one man from the Othmaniya was lightly wounded in the hand. That pursuit was characterized by extreme vitality, so much so that Timbuktu was not alerted until the invasion had been dispersed. Following this raid, the administration of Timbuktu could no longer consider the outposts as not being accepted by the administration. The Awlad Alush in Stocklo, truly, so it notified the Othmaniya branch that the administration now accepted dealing with them, and they were registered at Ras El Ma on the basis that their war contribution would be 80 sheep or two camels, and their annual tax would be forty sheep or one camel. This led to the submission of Sidi, who submitted to the rule of the Al-Furat Al-Idiliyya. In January 1907, the chief of the Kankat and Barabish branches, the remaining Alush, requested peace.