ملف رقم ٦٠٠ لسنة ١٩٠٥ الجزء ٦ "المنطقة الداخلية لعدن: يافع العليا؛ معاهدات مع السلطان قحطان وزعماء آخرين" [و‎‎١‎٨] (٢١٢/٣١)

KA' hiawah,
II @
October 1919
My denr Barrett,
Your demi-official tio. )o56 dated 1/th Oct
ober 1919 re Yafai affaira.
I certainly made no prorata# whatever to
Jultan omer bin Kahtan that we would pay nny blood-
money. i had two or throe interviews with him
with a view to try and £©t him to settle with bultan
oaleh bin truer, X also spoke about it with the
i,uflahi Sheikh. Such interviews as took place were
purely of n non-official nature. i did not discuss
the matter officially with the Hoaident with a view
to getting terms of a settlement arranged.
the quest ion of blood-money but he was distinctly
told that no such cons iderat ions could be discussed
until a settlement was made by him with Sultan baleh
bin Omer. And at the last interview i told him that
i could see his one desire was to get more money out
of us ana not to effect h settlement at all.
blood-money without discussing the question with the
liesident which i never did, though 1 mentioned to
hin the fact that an interview had taken place.
Qmer bin Kahtan had no intention of settling that
jl never bothered any more about it. xf i had been
1 remember that Omer bin K ah tan did mention
X would never have proposed or promised
It was so obvious then to me that >ultan
in Aden and n definite agreement had been made
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