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PARAPHRASE TELEGRAM from the Resident at Aden to
of State for the Colonies,,
■dated 29th November. deceived 11.20 a.m. 29th November, 1934.
Addressed to foreign Delhi, repeated to Colonial Office N0o97 o
Your telegram 27th November No.2333. Convention referred to
by you was not applied when Champion, Colonial Service, acted for
me and Lake acteu as Political Secretary last year and recent !
increase of Colonial Service staff at Auen has in my opinion
rendered it no longer necessary or appropriate. Number of
Colonial Service officers at Aden has been doubled during last
year and they no* consist of Lake, Political Secretary, Jhgyams
and Hamilton, Political Officers and Seager Frontier Officer,,
Among other objects this increase is intended to provide for
relief in leave vacancies and acting appointments end I intended
to recommend that if Lake acts for me Ingrams should act as
Political Secretary. I have already proposed this to the
Colonial Office sami-officially. Ingrams has held several
responsible posts before coming to ^-den including acting Colonial
Secretary Mauritius and has Id years’ Colonial Service.
Since he came to Aden he has been dealing with various
Protectorate problems and is now making an extensive tour in the
Protectorate. He will therefore be better qutlifieu for the
duties of Political Secrecary than Sinclair. The latter’s
duties when he was in Aden were confined entirely to magisterial
and to administrative work inside Aden Settlement and he has no
acquaintance with Protectorate politics or personnel and knows
no Arabic. Political Officers here work under the direct
control of the Political Secretary and I consider that it would
be unsuitable to subordinate Ingrams to Sinclair who incidentally
is his junior in age. I recomraena therefore that Ingrams