File 3300/1916 Pt 1 'Aden News Letters:- (June 1916-Dec. 1916)' [‎399r] (177/348)

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SECRET.
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3225
i 1916
24th Weekly Letter.
Dated Aden Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , the 17th June 1916.
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. , Aden,
To— l. Robertson, Esq., C.S.I., Secretary to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. , Political
Department.
The news of the fall of Jeddah seems to have given rise to little or no comment
among the Arab population here. The more travelled merchant class are inclined
to think that the handing over of the place to the Sharif may only mean a worse
regime. I gather that so far as the coast Arabs from the Hadramaut are concerned
there would have been very little opposition had it been true that we had occupied
it and intended to hold it.
The full communique was published here on Saturday evening and appears to
have been accepted with complaisance by all parties.
The local residents are much more interested in how the present situation
is going to help their trade than in the religious side of the question. So far no
comments have reached me, but this may be due to the news trickling through
slowly.
There has been a more than usually determined effort to cut off our kafilas
but as in former cases, it has failed. The numbers never were reduced below about
75 camels as against a lowest number of 37 camels on the last occasion. But the
ureS effort has lasted now about ten days agamst three days m the former case
To day’s kafila A train of travellers; a caravan; or any large party of travellers. is almost normal. On two occasions the kat kafila A train of travellers; a caravan; or any large party of travellers. from the
to clay s K ?“ a , . , t Tim last occasion was on Sunday last,
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Ahmed.
One of the Shairi Sheikhs visited Lahej lately and in a letter expresses his
astonishment at the smallness of the Turkish force he found in Lahej. He holds
us up to ridicule for not going agamst it.
T pttpr , reC eived from the Kotaibi Sheikh, addressed to me and to the Sultan
Letters leceiveu iro to Lal ■ and was received with honour by
:So h ; 3 .nK 2 i - k »«* n-
way to save himself and his country was subterfuge.
’oq nf Iptfcrs received from the Kaiti Sultan and from the
I enclose you copies o isit to Mokalla in May the Sultan told me that
Upper Aulaki Sheikh, r fl | y ith the tribe and has the Sultan’s confidence,
hii Minister, who has great influence with tne^ q£ affa ^ s in the Hadramau t.
was away on a deputation t fir d dated som f time back corroborate
His report is now funnshed. ^ on the sub j ect of the Zaidi danger, and both
his report. Both speak J ^ ^ Imam , s Zai J dis and Turks are working together
letters appear to me t0 s „ .-i d » Kaiti g u ltan has again asked us for
and endeavouring to ra ls ^^ .] ^ loan only .
s ,xbreeci-oa . 0 ’ to mee t dan g e r of this combined Imejnic-Turk-
It seems to me that the best y ^ hands of the Kaiti Sultan. I have already
ishmovement given two Mountain guns with ammunition with
Singly urge that he should be given a battery of
six guns With ammun rece i V ed further communications dated 20th
ehom theKaiti'sultan on the same subject. They cannot be translated in
time to^aceompany this letter.
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received on 11 All a i w i 0 v/Uli
INDIA FOREIGN SECRETARY’S
Letter. No. M
Dated 1A,!!]L1916