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File 3300/1916 Pt 1 'Aden News Letters:- (June 1916-Dec. 1916)' [450r] (279/348)
The record is made up of 1 item (173 folios). It was created in 26 Jun 1916-19 Jan 1917. 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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news of the fall of Jeddah eeeme to hare
given rise to little or no coraraent among the Arab popu
lation hereo The more travelled merchant claes are in-
*ed vo t'linJc 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 Kadramaut are concern,
ed 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 Satur
day evening and appears to have been accepted with com
plaisance by all parties.
The local Residents are much more interested in how the
present situation i» going to help their trade than in
the religious side of the question. Bo far no comments
have reaghed me 9 but this may be due to the news trick
ling through slowly.^.
There has been a more than usually determined
effort to cut off our kafilas but as in former eases 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 present ef fort has lasted now about
ten days against 3 days in the former case* Today* s Kaflla
is almost normal. On two occasions the kat Kofila from the
if&kht&ri side has been completely out off* The laet occa
sion was on Sunday last the 25th instant, when some Arabs
and Somalis under A1 Gmeiri seised it in jsir Ahmed.
One of the Shairi Sheikhs visited Lahej lately
and in a letter expresses his astonishment at the small-
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This part contains copies of Weekly Letters 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. (and Acting 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 to Government, Special Department, Bombay, and enclosed correspondence, 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. These Weekly Letters are numbered from 23, dated 10 June 1916, to 51, dated 30 December 1916; however some numbers of the Weekly Letters are not included in the file. 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.
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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