File 3498/1912 ‘Aden News Letters’ [‎238r] (486/598)

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15th Weekly Letter.
Dated Aden Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , the 12th (received 21st) April 1913.
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. at Aden,
To—C. C. Watson, Esq., I.C.S., Acting Secretary to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. ,
Special Department.
Please see paragraph 3 of last week’s letter. The Abdali Sultan writes that
several sections of the Jorabi tribe (Subehi) who carried away camels and their
loads of kat have now appeared before him. He is doing his best to recover the
plundered property.
2. Please see paragraph 4 of the Weekly letter of the 22nd March re Nadim
Pasha’s movements with the object of coming to terms with the Idrisi. His
Highness the Abdali Sultan has received a letter from a merchant in Hodeia
stating that the Wall and other members of the mission are still at Loheya that
nothing has been heard of their meeting with the Idrisi but that there is no fighting
going on, and that the Imam’s men remain in the places from which they had
driven the Idrisi’s men. With reference to the W eekly letter of the 29th March
1913, the local news correspondent reports that the Imam Yahia is willing to make
peace with the Idrisi; also, that the Sharif of Mecca and the Tdrisi are on good
tprmq and that they regularly communicate with each other, that the Shant
made’a settlement with all the tribesmen of the hinterland of Mecca and Medina,
and secured the roads lying between Jedda, Mecca and Medina.
The Abdali Sultan remarks that if the rumours regarding the Idrisi affairs are
true the Idrisi must have gained more advantage than the Imam and ^ hers ’JP. ®
will nrobablv obtain Gizan, with all the income from the salt produced there, Maidi,
other ports on t^coast, and the Farsan islands, which the G—s ~x-
ious to acquire He thinks that the Turks will not make a settlement with
dr si without the concurrence of the Imam and the Sharif of Mecca ; although no
thing definite has transpired. His Highness hopes to get news from one of the
members of the mission in due course.
Sir James Bell has left for Socotra and Major Jacob for the Haushabi country.
They are expected to return about 22nd or 23rd.
are tald^g^tivemeasuresln^hedirection^oTe vacua t^'n and iiiocidatiim^^hopelo
Operations. 11 * I £ve already notified
these cases by wire.
Dated Aden Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , the 12th April 1913.
Endorsed by 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.
Copy forwarded, with compliments to the Deputy Secretary to the Govern-
ment of India, Foreign Department, Simla,