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File 3300/1916 Pt 2 'Aden News Letters:- (Jan. 1917-Dec. 1917)' [241r] (481/620)
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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ASEH BB 8 IDBMCY r
2nd May 1917.
Dear Grant,
Letter* received fro» variouc sources state
that Turks and Zaidis bars attacked and pillaged JFuban p
Hawa and Rubeaten and that our friend Syod Muhammad
Darwish edio has lately gone back from here has collect
ed men at Shaib and is fighting the Zaidis - In this
connection pleas# see paragraph 3 of my Weekly better
dated 24th February 1917#
hawa and Hubeaten axe within our sphere# Juban
went orer to the Turks as the result of the last
boundary demarcation# The Sheikh of the place is how*
ever friendly to us and has made repeated overture# for
a treaty which we hare of course always politely de
clined#
Sultan Abdul Kadir, the grandson of ths Jadli
Sultan writes that the Turk# have gone back to Lahej but
that they are ejected to return in greater force* He
also writes that they have taken with them to Lahej our
friend the Pul eel Sheikh (vide paragraph 1 of Weekly
better dated 17th March 1917)#
the Turkish Yemen* The fighting between Ibn Hasir Mukbil
and others referred to in paragraph 4 of Weekly better
dated 3rd March 1917 appear# to continue#
Sheikh All Haslr the Alawi oonplaine of intrl
gues by Mukbil Abdulla, the notorious cousin of the Ko-
taibi Sheikh. He says that the Kotaibie are his enemies
and Mukbil Abdulla sets All Saeed
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
against him# The
latter
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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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