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File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [495r] (344/633)
The record is made up of 1 item (316 folios). It was created in 28 Feb 1919-16 Feb 1921. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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th* r«qu«»t of t e/i Amil 9
*ire thu son of ths fmsaufi ja ohcikh amongst them, ent om«
sola!era to that UieiJ* to demand his surrender but without
result, A second detaohment was sent but *r*e ag iln ignsni-
•outily turned out of the country by Aboul J 111,
ihe .hsiWiB m the iiaJctart ,Jid Vuseufl dlstrtcto are re-
ported to be tsking meaeures with a k* visa to repel hairti
agrrosslon, and th.t AoJkh Abdul Wnhab is secretly co
rns Yussufi -helm wrote to us ior assistance a few days
ago but his request was politely refused,
A secret agent mo lately Tisited iiawia rsyerts that the
mole of the 'Javia district is under the domination of the
lm,m who ie represented by an Anll.dyyed -as an WiiXith or
smar, Kayed bin ialeh, ths nsphsw ..no suoucsoor of ths
former but now decrepit eld oheikh, Ibn haoir uukbil who has
gone into retirement, hue no MMU* authority vhateyer,
Ihe agent obserred no activity or oonoentration of -eioi
forces at Havia. he estimates the strength of the preeent
garrison from aoo to 3uu, all haiaie. Xelegrsphie com unicaw
tion hae not yet been es ebli hed with i>.iz,
ickness accompanied by heavy mortality is said te pre
vail among the haicii troupe who had come do«n o is ru.
■okha. A Company of fresh seluiere was recently sent from
!,ana in relief, but sicfclness has held them up at iz.
Vhe nature of the sioknese is not known, but ch lera le
reported to be prev lent among the iaidi solaiers in havie
Ushomed Al Aghbari and the Makibs of J>* Mahomed -nd
Husoln h ve written lettere expressing their desire ti be
piaced under our protection, fhoy are members sf ths old
^rab honfederi cy. rhsj will be given a suitable reply.
overtures hare al.o be.n mads by ths Inyani bhs.khs
operating wit them*
of the bheikhs of the Lower Yemen, Abdul nab bin
in the Yomom si»King
instructed the Officer
asking to come under eur protection. 1 hare
e uffieer Co»!ianbing, obut J'skim, to =>end
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The file mainly consists of the following: copies of News Letters from the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. , Aden, mostly addressed to the British High Commissioner, Cairo, which were forwarded to the Under Secretary of State for India by the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; and India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Political Department Minute Paper covering sheets.
The News Letters are dated from 5 February 1919 to 23 December 1920. They report on the political situation in the Yemen, largely in relation to Imam Yahya [Yahya Muhammad Hamid al-Din, who took the regnal name al-Mutawakkil ala Allah] and the Idrisi [Muhammad al-Idrisi], and include news of Colonel Harold Fenton Jacob’s diplomatic mission to the Imam on behalf of the British. The News Letters report on news from Tihama, Upper Yemen and Lower Yemen, Asir, and the Aden Protectorate.
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- File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20'
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- 323r:330v, 331v:395r, 396r:637v
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