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File 3300/1916 Pt 4 'Aden News-Letters. (1921-23)' [47r] (93/644)
The record is made up of 1 item (322 folios). It was created in 16 Feb 1921-26 Feb 1924. 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 Aden News Letter
secret
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.
31st July 1923.
(The content© of till© letter are for the sole
im 01 mat ion of those to whoni it is sent. Kot to "be
reproduced.)
The following is a sugary of the new® reoorte
since the despatch of my last letter dated. 11th July 19?
A JIB
A Wahabeee force inv- -ed the ) eni Shihr countr
which lies to the forth of Jlbha, last month, and occupie<
its chief town, a 'ter a f ight in which % large number of
Leni Jhihr tribesmen were killed. The Wahabees also
looted a passing caravan of some 500 Zaidi nilprims from
Sana, and kill ad almost all the pilgrim®.
2. Last month a saiabuK from Hodja® landed at Tedi
54 rifle® (including 50 Le Ora© and two English magazine
rifles} and a number of ammunition cases.
Captain .Fa,zluddin write® that the markets at
edi and i ait-el-Taici^ are full of rms and
a maunition ; .?.nd. that they are ©old ao cheap that a French
Le Cras rifle can re obtainedfor 2 doll r , a Turkish
causer rifle for 10 doll ars and a British magazine rifle
.303 for 10-14 dollars.
All these arms and ammunition ore imported from
the fedjar, especially from edina and i abag.
2-A , Fajor Barrett, my First Assistant, touched at
Hodeidah on 18th July on the way to Ksmaran. Owing to
Italian feeling on the subject of their Hodeidah Consulate
and the Idrisi* s refusal to ermit Italians to land
without special permission, ajor Barrett did not go
aataore, but Bayed. Mustafa who had. come from Jiean to see
him, came on board B. 1, 1.8; H Cornwall is” .
Sa.yed lustaf a expressed, bliss elf as extremely
nervous of Italian intentions as regards the Hodeidah
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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, addressed to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and then to the Secretary of State for the Colonies (from the News Letter dated 5 May 1921, forwarded 1 June 1921), which were forwarded to the Under Secretary of State for India; 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 12 January 1921 to 31 December 1923. 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 Zaidi [Zaydi] tribes, and the Idrisi [Muhammad al-Idrisi]. The News Letters report on news from Tihama, Upper Yemen and Lower Yemen, Asir, and the Aden Protectorate, as well as the slave trade, illicit arms traffic (folio 89), and miscellaneous matters such as the visit of Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence to Aden on 18 August 1921 (folio 270).
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