File 21/1911 Pt 3 'Aden:- Recruitment of Arabs.' [9v] (14/36)
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The papers cover two issues. The first is a request to the Colonial Office from a firm of leather merchants for permission for two Arab skin selectors, nominally Turkish subjects, to proceed from Aden to Nigeria. The correspondence records that 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 was authorised to issue the necessary passports. The second issue concerns the loss of a passport by one of six skin selectors, who also went from Aden to Nigeria, and who had been employed by a Mr G Schaerer of Messrs Max Klein of Aden. Minutes show that the former was a Swiss citizen, that the firm was American, and that 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 was satisfied with the legitimacy of both.
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- File 21/1911 Pt 3 'Aden:- Recruitment of Arabs.'
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- 3r:19v, 20v
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