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File 3300/1916 Pt 2 'Aden News Letters:- (Jan. 1917-Dec. 1917)' [119v] (238/620)
The record is made up of 1 item (310 folios). It was created in 22 Dec 1916-12 Dec 1918. 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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To counteract this rnove the Imam has ordered All oaeed
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
,
to send Husni Bey, Elias Bey and Ivlohomed i\asir r/lukbil of
Mavia to Sanaa for trial. From several sources we have heard
that Husni Bey and Elias Bey have been sent, but that Mohomed
Nasir declined to go. The {Latest report about ohe latter •
that 150 of the Imam’s soldiers came to Mavia and carried him
off to Sanaa.
These events are favourable to our plans. If Moho
med Nasir Mukbil is kept away from Mavia for a bit it is like:
there will be a decline of Turkish influence in that neigh
bourhood. We shall probably get definite news of some move
ment soon..
A report received to-day (9th November) again refers
to this movement of the tribes and adds that it is not impro
bable that the Imam's own son may participate in it. ' This is
the eldest son Mahomed who.we have heard of before as discon-
tented with the Imam’s miserly ways and who has once approac.
the Idrisi with a view to getting him to assist in deposing
his father.
The Sultan of Mokalla has reached his home and has
already sent down 25 more men to be trained as gunners. The
s
guns have been* received and will be retained here until his
men are trained. He informed us in Aden that he meant to rai;
soldiers from among the Yafais who are related to him. Since
his departure I have received letters relating to this pro
posal. The- Nakfbs of Mausata report that the Fadli Sultan
has addressed them forbidding them to supply any soldiers to
the Sultan of Mokalla. They forward the Sultan's original
letter in which he conveys the order by command of Ali Saeed
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
. The Sultan refuses to allow any men to proceed via
Shukra. It remains to be seen v/hether he can carry out his
threat.
■ * * In the iast few days we have had a good many
i . . |
letters about the doings of Sayed Mahomed Darwish of Biya*
shia. This man received very considerable assistance from ^
in
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This part mostly consists of copies of Weekly Letters and enclosures 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 the following: the Secretary to Government, Special Department, Bombay, and the Government of India in the Foreign Department (forwarded 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. at Aden to the Secretary of State for India for information); and the British High Commissioner, Cairo (forwarded to the Under Secretary of State for India by the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs). These Weekly Letters are numbered, from number 1 of 6 January 1917, to number 12 of 31 October 1918. The file also includes 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. Minute Paper covering sheets, and printed copies of previous Weekly Letters, which were sent to the 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. as enclosures in letters from the Foreign Secretary to the Government of India. A few numbers of the Weekly Letters are not included in the file.
The Weekly Letters mostly concern relations between the following: Imam Yahya [Yahya Muhammad Hamid al-Din, who took the regnal name al-Mutawakkil ala Allah]; the Idrisi of Asir; various other rulers and tribes in the Yemen; the United Kingdom; and Turkey [the Ottoman Empire].
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- 1r:84v, 87r:93v, 98r:106v, 112r, 113v:114r, 115v:120v, 125r, 127r:133v, 136r:136v, 139r, 141r:145v, 149r:164v, 167r:220v, 222r:234r, 237r:248v, 250r:258r, 259r:262v, 266r:266v, 268r:275v, 278r:279r, 281r:293v, 301r:310v
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