File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎456r] (266/633)

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Hi« following is a aumnary of nows roportod
oinco tho despatch of my last latter dated 18th arch '
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from the reports received from Hodeida during
this wook f It appoars that the Imam's men are still be*
sieged at aiqab en Jabel sura* rheir early surrender la
ex ected as they appear to be short of food* Ko fresh
aetivity h^s been reported since the retreat of the li&ijrfs
troops to J;bel dsfan* Ihe ^uhra country is said to bo
entirely free of tho ioidis*
^howkat hoy 'e report re the com unication
addressed by the Imam to the : uhra dhelkhs ^Jid others,
mentioned In the last hews Letter,has bsen confirmed,
Captain Garden is trying to get a copy sf the proclama
tion. There ie a rumour that liahmud hadhln has arrived
st Msnakha with a visw to having a personril dlseuaslon
with the i^uhra Cheikhe.
An agent at J*ei t-al-i'akih reporta that a leoal
merchant, Uahomed Ibrrhim Mokhawi, has been informed by
eerne one from iiodelda that Syria, Smyrna and Aleppo
hsve been returned to the Turks and that the latter will
shortly arrive at edina. The merchant has also been
told that i^nwar laaha has conquered half ef India, that
j the Turkish notes are honourably accepted in India ufid
1 th« ralu« of A 1/- &Bglinh Mot* bao boen r«duc«4
to seven rupees Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf. ,
Ifce lm?m's soldiers at Beni Saad are reported >4
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