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File 3300/1916 Pt 4 'Aden News-Letters. (1921-23)' [137r] (273/644)
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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xorca (vide He vs letter ti&tad 3rd August l.Sj3s page 3
is a dd to h .ve been sent hurriedly to Blld-ua-Jh.tXAf
Tiie IsEaeio Com-i. mda r of a-i'faii,aiarif Abdulin
M-Tto&iM and the toil of daneKtut laei All Aiwa are said
to h r wo b 6 an oall^d to S'-iia and to have arrived there
On U.i.n 5ti\ ^u u.it.,
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Tha Imm is reported to be const mo ting forts in
Bn jar ah : m& Hu an S ood in Sn % fan, a mw.X&t of masong
ho/vino ^ rr ^-'d uha^> ^.d.-cc o Xru: S n lor ta« ^uryQs-i®
About a :*3eek ago the 2Ur&niq pi rat a a looted a dho^
Milch -4as wrecked no.ar Mokha* Tno XhOw had on board
nr#rahandla» valued nt Bs* 60,000 belonging to Aden
nnrcli ...nta*
I have asked the him to recover the goods through
his Amil at Sabid*
I have received a report that m IimiIo agent is
at Jibouti I rating Wk tr*. F vwv;® lor the acnstruction
of a railway from Mokha to Saha -md that tha Frencii have
supplied, the I?ram with perousaioa cai>s and gun ponder
through him*
Xho fed! of Ihala has sunt ire * copy of an article
■^hivli has appear®a in the Egyptian paper A1 Ifetottn of
lOth S-ptaiipjar iS6h ragarriiiig & ooncossi on obtained oy
& French mission h >a4ad oy M*P k ul Sigiar for laying
toh-griph ''ini tole^hcne lines in the tamen*
runs as follows:-
Tliw article
^French efforts in Yomn.
*'tn® Syrian Inte 11ig'ince 'D@|>artuent has bean
infomed.by Its oorrespcendunt in S'.rrm that the French
Mission about which ti\@ Syrian Intelligence Department
hml stated to h om to Immn for di dng matters.
wi wh Xhituv f ihla win dHiidu*'(jujL*»din has carried
cut its enterprise,came back to Sanaa and Uxmaa to Paris
througi dibout i via the African
n K ' Ui coast. Ttio h&a*i of
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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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