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File 3300/1916 Pt 2 'Aden News Letters:- (Jan. 1917-Dec. 1917)' [287r] (573/620)
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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and confirm* th* Imam 1 * protest again#t Turkish method** He
promises to send men to the assistance of the Zuhedi* He con
firms the disturbances which have broken out against Mahomed
Maser Mukbil and reports the capture of several of his
villages* He adds that fighting is the order of the day*
We have received a letter from the Al&wi reporting
that Saeed
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
has issued orders, under threat of punishment t
to the Kotaibi Sheikhs, the Amir of Bala, the Haushabi, and
himself that they should arrest and bring to him Sayed Kahoraed
bin Mahomed Berwish should he attempt to pass through their
territories on leaving Aden. This is the same Sayed who was
made prisoner last year by Saeed
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
when leaving Aden with
a caravan of stores and ammunition. He too confirms the report
of fighting between Sayed Mahomed Taha and Abdo All, the
Mu dir.
Mu said Motahah All Man a A1 Saqladi reports that the
Turks and the Imam are not 4n good terms. And adds that
Kataba and Dhaka are short of supplies.
The Sharif of Behan writes that he has made arrangements
with Sheikh Yehia bin Yehia Ash Saif and Sheikh Saleh bin
Puhaid al Abidi to create trouble for the Turks in the dis
tricts of Ibb t Jibla and Taiz.
The Dubi Sheikh and Sultan Abdul Kadir, the Fadli
Sultan’s grandson, report a mutual arrangement whereby the
latter undertakes to guard the road to Aden for the Yafais on
payment of a fee of six annas per camel.
A rumour, unconfirmed, has lately reached us that the
Imam’s son, who was lately reported as in rebellion against
his father, has moved down to the neighbourhood of Jabal Jihaf
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with 500 followers.
A man who arrived in Aden from Ibb reports that the
Turks have issued a proclamation at Ibb to the effect that the
English have sued Turkey for peace and offered to restore
Egypt and Basrah to the Turks and to make over Aden and LaheJ
to them. We are to retain a small idot of land in Aden for a
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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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- 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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