File 3300/1916 Pt 4 'Aden News-Letters. (1921-23)' [‎280r] (559/644)

Captain Fazlu&din informs me that an
Indian firm at Hodaids. Tahir Vasee ^ oo. h??s made
dr, offer of Rs.50,000 monthly to the Idrisi in
return for a lease of the Customs under certain
conditions, the most important of ich is that the
rate of duty should be reduced. The idrisi is in
clined to accent the offer but has left the decision
to sayed Mustafa.
Mohemraad Noori, the late Turkish Gadhi
of Ibb in the Yemen and recently in the employ of
the Idrisi as oadhi of Loheiya, arrived here at the
end of last month for repatriation to Constantinople.
Captain Fazluddin speaks very highly of him and
says that he holds very sensible views about the
political situation in the Yemen.
in the Qadhi’s opinion the prospects of
k lasting reace between the idrisi and the imam are
not bright as long as Mahmud K&dhira and his party
remain in the Yemen. He thinks that Mahmud Nadhim’s
stay in the Yemen is not of his own choice, but the
imam will not permit him to depart on an Y account.
Ae long ss liahmud Nadhim is In the Yemen, he has to
Keep up e farce of TurKish Government and hold out
to the people the hope of the return of Turns. in
any peace negotiations in which he is represented,
he has necesssrily to act in the nane ot his
Government although in his heart he helleves that
the return of TurKs to the Yemen is not only im
possible but harmful to the best interests of TurKey
The oadhi is a staunch believer in this view and
regards the withdrawal of Mahmud HaAftim and hi.-
party as the hey of the tranquillity of the Yemen.
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