ملف رقم ٣٤٩٨ لسنة ١٩١٢ "نشرات عدن" [و‎‎٨‎١] (٥٩٨/١٧٢)

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14th Weekly Letter.
Dated Aden Residency, the 3rd April 1915.
From—The Political Resident, Aden,
To—L. Robertson, Esq., Secretary to the Government of Bombay.
A well known merchant of Sana’a, Shaikh Muhammad bin Husain-al-Ammari,
recently called on the Abdali on bis way to Aden. According to him the Turks are
fast loosing their influence in the Yemen, their very existence there at the present
moment depending entirely on the Imam.
2. The merchant told the Abdali that about two months ago 70 Germans landed
at A1 Mandar, near Hodeida, of whom 30 were employed as soldiers at Hodeida,
and the rest sent up to Sana’a; that about February last, some of the Yafa Akils
with their followers—in all about 80 men—visited the Governor-General of the
Yemen at Ibb, and returned after assuring the latter of their loyalty to the Turkish
Government; that immediately after the return of the Yafais, a representative of
the Haushabi Sultan, Amir Ali Ba Saleh Ba Hashim, accompanied by a clerk of
Shaikh Muhammad Nasir Mukbil of Mawia, went and saw the Governor-General,
and an agreement was signed on behalf of the Haushabi Sultan, declaring his
allegiance and obedience to the Turkish Government.
Inquiries will be made to find out the truth of this latter item, which sounds
grossly exaggerated.
3. The merchant on arrival at Aden was interviewed. He said that, soon after
the declaration of the war by the Turks, the Governor-General was keen to incite
the Arabs to make an advance on our Protectorate, but the Imam and the other
Shaikhs in the Yemen would not hear of it.
4. As regards the recent raid on Beda (vide paragraph 1 of Weekly Letter,
dated 20th February 1915) he said that the raid was made by the Imam’s men
without his sanction.
Dated Aden Residency, the 3rd (received the 12th) April 1915.
Endorsed by the Political Resident, Aden.
Copy forwarded, with compliments, to the Deputy Secretary to the Govern
ment of India in the Foreign Department, Simla.
G. M. Press, Simla.-No. C. 16 F. D.-13-4-15.-10.-M, D.