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File 3300/1916 Pt 4 'Aden News-Letters. (1921-23)' [57r] (113/644)
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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Hodeidah, Sayed Mustafa reproached the Italian Government
| for sending their Consul to Hodeidah without having first
| obtained the Idrisi’s permission.
Sayed Mustafa did not object to the Italian
Marittima Company's agent, who was already in Hodeidah,
remaining there as such, but said that he could not allow
him to hoist his flag.
As to Italian merchants, Sayed 7 ustafa replied
that the Idrisi Government had no objection to Italian
traders who were natives of the Red Sea area, establishing
their business houses in Hodeidah but the same concession
could not be allowed to European Italians whose safety could
not be guaranteed. There was no objection to their sending
their
native agents
Non-British agents affiliated with the British Government.
for business in Hodeidah.
There is no change in the situation in Asir except
that the forces of the King of the Hedjaz have retired from
Mahail to Barak.
Captain Fazluddin states that one of the deputa
tions from Asir which visited the Idrisi recently, brought a
letter signed by Sheikh Ib-El-Faraj, the Chief Sheikh and
numerous smaller Sheikhs of Beni Shihr, in which they
expressed their loyalty to the Idrisi and their desire to
come under his rule.
Until recently, this tribe was in friendly rela
tions with King Hussein, but the Chief Sheikh Ibn-Il-Faraj,
who is in some way related to King Hussein, appears to have
fallen out with him, Hence the overtures to the Idrisi.
Captain Fazluddin reports an explosion in the
Idrisi powder magazine in Jizan, as a result of which 4 men
were killed and 3 wounded,
mm-
There appears to be seme reason to believe that the
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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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