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74. On September 10th the Nigerian Government gave their general
approval to the proposals for improved control of the West African pil
grimage drawn up between the Legation and the Sudan Government (March-
April Report, paragraph 63).
75. 1932 Pilgrimage. —Despite active propaganda on behalf of the
pilgrimage carried out in India, Malaya, and Java by the Hejaz Govern
ment, including an assurance that Pilgrimage Day in 1932 would fall on a
Iriday, prospects at the end of December were very poor. All the direct
sailings from Singapore during November and December were cancelled
for lack of bookings. Only about 2,500 Javanese arrived during these
months, and the Dutch Legation thought these to be about half the eventual
number, which would thus be 5,000 as against the 16,000 of 1931. The
Indian pilgrimage promised slightly better; but it seemed unlikely by the
end of December that the total number of overseas arrivals for 1932 would
much exceed 20,000, as against the meagre 40,000 of last year.
VIII.—SLAVERY.
76. Manumissions.— Nigerian male slave who took refuge in the
Legation in December was manumitted and repatriated to Suakin on
December 26th .
-77. Intelligence Service.—As a result of a meeting of the Standing
Aden Committee held in London in July, His Majesty’s Government
decided not to establish a slavery intelligence service on the Arabian coast
of the Red Sea.
„ Abyssinian Slaves. —The successful repatriation by the Legation
ot two Abyssinian slave-boys by way of Jibuti (July-August Renort,
paragraph 84) led His Majesty’s Government to enquire of His Majesty’s
limster at Addis Ababa whether the Ethiopian Government would be likely
to consent to all Abyssinian slaves manumitted in future by the British
Legation at Jedda being sent by this route at the cost of their Government
as a permanent rule. Sir S. Barton in his reply of November 2nd stated
that he wouid prefer to take up specific cases as they arose, rather than press
tne Ethiopian Government to agree to any permanent system.
IX.—MISCELLANEOUS.
79. Visitors —Ut. Twitchell left Jedda on December 15th for a prt>s-
abcf ln ° t0Ur m ^* s activities have been reported in paragraph 18
... . , M ;,- Fazl-ul-Haq, former Minister in Bengal and member of the Round
lab le Conference arrived in Jedda on December 26th and left 6 days later
after visiting Medina. • J
Colone! Nawab An honorific title; an official acting as a provincial deputy ruler in South Asia; or a significant Muslim landowner in nineteenth century India. Gsman Jar-ud-Daula, Commander-in-Chief of the
Hyderabad fetate Army arrived at Jedda on November 29th and left on
December 4th after visiting Mecca and Medina.
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j a inoncicui visueu tne nejaz early
for India on November 26th en route for Hyderabad.
Prince Mehmed Djemaleddine (son of Prince Mehmed Shevket) with
his wife and two other persons arrived in the Hejaz in November and after
’ V1SaS I°L Ind A a i eft f ° r ¥ assawa on December 6th en route
tb ^ n T a °i r Addls Ababa. Their object was apparently to raise
the wind but local generosity rose to no more than the cost of their passa
ges out of the country. 1
M k 80; , D ^° rta - Throu f hou t October and November a certain
Mubank Ah an Indian graduate of Punjab University and a religious
fanatic who had done hijra”, i.e., fled like the Prophet, from the infidel
DnP.b 0f Te™ttn h w tn eel l b0?nbardl j lg c the Le S ation > th e local banks, and the
Dutch Legation with abusive and threatening letters from Mecca His
grievance at first concerned certain losses on exchange which he said he had
suffered through the depreciation of sterling; but its scope was extended in
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