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File 3300/1916 Pt 2 'Aden News Letters:- (Jan. 1917-Dec. 1917)' [215r] (429/620)
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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SBCHBT.
.t. te. 4
ivam RR 8 IXBKCY,
16th Kay li«17.
Dear Grantj
Please see paragraph 7 of my last week 1 s
letter* The Kadi of Behan has sent me a letter #iich
he had reoelred from the Imam's lieutenant, Sef-el-Ielam.
In this the
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
says that Sheikh Saleh
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
al Tairi
has spoken to him Tory highly about the Kadi and so he
is Tory anxious to see him and talk orer and aettle
matters relating to publie interests, personally. The
writer
The lowest of the four classes into which East India Company civil servants were divided. A Writer’s duties originally consisted mostly of copying documents and book-keeping.
further puts forth an induoemont to the Kadi of
personal benefits accruing to him as the result of the
interflow sought for* The Kadi seems to hare his oen
doubts about the object of this invitation and Bays that
he has thought it best not to comply with it until he
learns my wishes in the matter and also the present state
of our relations with the Imam of Sanaa. He says he has
heard a rumour that we hare concluded a pact with the
Imam. He is probably referring here to the faets report-
*
ed in ay telegram He. A.P. 359 dated 14th Hay 191?and
my letter Ho.G-33g dated 15th Hay 1917 «
I hare advised the Kadi not to have anything to do
with Sef-el-Islam for the present. The Imam is probably
taking all advantage he can of the disturbed state of the
country and endeavouring to oolleot tithes from all and
sundry.
2. The Kadi has heard that ther# is now only
a small party of Turks in Sanaa and that probably none at
other centres in that neighbourhood.
3.
In another letter the Kadi sends his con~
hratulations on our oocupatlon of Bagdad and the success
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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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