File 3300/1916 Pt 4 'Aden News-Letters. (1921-23)' [‎107r] (213/644)

booty, including jewellery, after killing 8 Idrisi
soldiers*
In order to prevent the export of coffee via
Hodeidah, the Iraaa is reported to have bought 'ill the
coliee at Menakha, and taken to S^uiaa, whence it will
be sent to Aden.
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A nephew ol Jamil Bey, who arrived in Sanaa from
Syria on the 10th November, is eaid to have informed
Mahmud Nadhim that a Jewish Government is to be
established in P destine and has given him an outline
of the Palestine Moslem propaganda in circulation.
Mahmud Nadhim explained all this to the leading men in
Sanaa and appealed to them for monetary assistance for
tueir Moslem brethren in Palestine. In connection
with this, the ima^* is said to have isked the
religious head of the Jewish community in Sanaa to
xumish him with a list of all tnose Jews wno have
already left or, intended to leave, for Jerusalem.
A report states that the installation, of a
telephone between Mokha, Taiz and Sanaa has been
delayed owing to some defects in the material received
from Jibouti.
I hear that the Imam has issued his own coinage
and has notified people that they should exchange the
Turkish Majidles at ore sent in circulation in the Yemer
for his coins.
I have received a report that the Imam his sent
one Qadhi Mohsin Qalala to Jubouti as his agent,and
that tills man has recently despatched percussion caps,
gunpowder cartridge making machines, ammunition etc.,
to the Imam.