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File 3300/1916 Pt 2 'Aden News Letters:- (Jan. 1917-Dec. 1917)' [232r] (463/620)
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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25th April 19 x 7 .
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Please ••• nay
r^tr^datad 3 *d liarch last
The dovernor^eneral pf the Yemen has now sent a reply te
the A mar loan C ornml of nhich a translation la enclosed*
?roa the letter I gather the report of forced loans from
1 Indians In Hodeldah Is probably not exaggerated*
2 * 2 rom Information receired lately, it appears
that the Dhaitls, a section of the Amiri tribe, have again
risen against the Amir of i>ala who had to apply to hahomed
Haslr Mukbil for assistance* fee latter sent him 400 men
bat soon withdrew them*
3 . The Turks are reported to be levying Ke.l per camel
load of vegetable* klrbi, grass, etc. in the Fadli country
Sultan Abdul Aadlr* the grandson of the ?adli Sultan is
said to hare warned hie people not to pay any taxos or
tolls to the Turks*
A* Pises# see paragraph 4 of my Weekly Letter, dated
9 th instant* It is reported that the officer in command
of the party of Turks feo have gone to the Padli country*
met Sultan Abdul Kadir at a fair and tried to induce him to
go to Lahej, promising to fix a stipend for him* The lat**
ter pretended to agree and quietly left the fair*
5* On the 18th instant, opportunity was taken of the
33rd Punjabis being in harbour on the Hired Transport •Puss-
"Pumea* awaiting escort to hast Africa and ot H*H*s* Clio
and "top&se” being available to land the regiment at
Wadi
A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows.
Sana, with orders to proceed to Kusemir (Padlij. The ob
ject was to clear out any parties of Turks found lu-ue, ts
hearten the local Arabs, and to increase our own wnile
lowering the Turkish prestige * Very little opposition was
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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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- File 3300/1916 Pt 2 'Aden News Letters:- (Jan. 1917-Dec. 1917)'
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