British authorities today prohibited further entrance of Jews into Aden, a British possession, and ordered numerous Jewish refugees from the kingdom of Yemen, Arabia, to return here immediately.
In view of the fact that return of the Jewish refugees to Yemen would expose them to danger, the local Jewish relief committee today appealed to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency to draw the attention of world Jewry to the plight of the Yemenite Jews in Aden and to obtain permission for them to proceed to Palestine.
Yemen has just been defeated in a war by the army of Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia, and the Jews fled when the fanatical anti-Jewish Wahabi troops were entering Yemen.
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