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File 57/1905 ‘Arabia: - Situation in Yemen (1905-11). Arab revolt against Turks. Imam of Sanaa’s letter to the King. Fighting in Yemen 1911. Agreement between the Turks & the Imam’ [‎8r] (20/692)

The record is made up of 1 volume (342 folios). It was created in 1905-1912. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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[This Document is the Property qf His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
ASIATIC TURKEY AND ARABIA. [October 16.]
CONEIDENTIAL. Section 1.
No. 1.
Sir G. Lowther to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received October 16.)
Therapia, October 6, 1911.
I HA\ E the honour to forward herewith a copy of a despatch from His Majesty’s
consul at Jeddah, reporting on the relief of Abha, but that Seyyid Idrisee still holds
out ; on the sickness among the Turkish troops ; and on the unsatisfactory conduct of
the Grand Shereef of Mecca.
I have heard apparently well-authenticated reports that Seyyid Idrisee has again
advanced against Abha, and has met with some small successes.
I have, Ac.
GERARD LOWTHER.
Enclosure in No. 1.
Consul Monahan to Sir G. Lowther.
(No. 36.)
Jeddah, September 18, 1911.
WITH reference to Acting Consul Dr. Abdur Rahman’s despatch No. 33 of the
24th ultimo, 1 have the honour to submit the following summary of my information as
to events in Assyr :—
The Grand Shereef, with about 1,500 of his Bedouins, and with twelve battalions
of regulars (say, 5,000 men) and about fourteen light guns, six of them apparently
Hotchkiss guns, the regulars being under the command of Brigadier-General Nesha’at
Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , of the General Staff of Constantinople, left Gaus (about six hours from
Cronfudah) on the 19th June, and entered the besieged Abha, chief town of Assyr, on
the 16th July. The siege, which had lasted about nine months, was thus raised, and
desperately-needed provisions were brought in for the garrison. A few days, however,
before the relief of Abha, four blockhouses in strong positions close together in the
immediate neighbourhood of Abha, all four held by one weak battalion with two guns,
surrendered to the Idrisee insurgents for want of provisions, and are still in the hands
of the insurgents. One of the guns has been since recovered. The men apparently
remain prisoners.
On the way from Gaus to Abha there were no serious encounters, but the
insurgents, who were without artillery, on several occasions fled before the artillery
fire. 1 he losses on the side of the Government in killed and wounded were very
small, but among the regulars, who suffered greatly from the heat, the losses from
disease were very heavy, Nesha’at Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. admitting that 800 regulars died of disease,
seemingly cholera or dysentery. The Grand Shereef returned from Abha to Taif
without any regular troops or guns. There are now sixteen battalions with twenty-six
guns, six of them heavy guns, in Abha. The member of Parliament for Abha, Seyyid
Ali, who having been shut up in the besieged town has not been able to attend
Parliament, has now gone to Taif. He is an ignorant Arab of the Bedouin type.
Brigadier-General Mohammed Ali, A ali of the Yemen, is now in Geezan with
2,000 men, and Colonel Hamdi Bey with six battalions (say, 2,500 men) in Loheiya.
They are waiting for cooler weather to advance against Sabiyeah, Idrisee’s head
quarters, near which place Idrisee himself is now on Mount Haifa. Nesha’at Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
has returned to Constantinople.
The Grand Shereef since his triumphant return to the Hedjaz has become
exceedingly independent, and is likely to give much trouble to the Government, The
Shereefian prison for Bedouins in Mecca, which, since the advent of freedom, has been
in a doubtful position, is now a firmly-established institution, and the Grand Shereef |
is asserting his power of life and death over the Bedouins. At the reception held on
his arrival at Taif he violently and publicly abused some Shereefs of the Daui Zeid, [
between whom and his own rival line of the Abadilah there is an immemorial feud ;
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(No. 687.)
Sir,

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The volume contains letters and other papers, mainly by British Consular officials, reporting on the political situation in Yemen between 1905 and 1911. Their correspondence contains numerous military reports about Turkish troop and transport movements, the progress of the conflict between Turkish and Arab forces, and the state of the country and inhabitants of Yemen Vilayet, particularly the capital Sana’a, the Red Sea port town of Hodeida, and Asir in Saudi Arabia. Their diplomatic reports discuss the following topics: the response to be made to the appeal by the Imam of Yemen (also referred to as the Imam of Sana’a, Sanaa or Sana) to the King Emperor (Edward VIII), asking him to intercede with the Sultan of Turkey about the oppression of Turkish officials in Yemen; the letter from Mohammed Johia Hamid-ed-Din, father of the Imam of Yemen to Mohamed Effendi-el-Hariri, Mufti of Hamoh, describing the Arab revolt in Yemen against Turkish rule; the Commission sent by the Grand Shereef of Mecca to the Imam of Yemen with the object of ending the military conflict in Yemen between Turkish troops and the Arab forces of the Imam of Yemen; the letters of friendship from the Imam of Yemen to the Sultan of Lahej (also referred to as the Abdali Sultan) and the interview between 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. for Aden with a representative of the Imam of Yemen sent to propose an alliance with the British Government; the special Turkish Commission sent to Yemen by the Sublime Porte, to negotiate a peace settlement with the Imam of Yemen and the Sheikhs of the Arab tribes; the ratification of the agreement between the Turkish Commander Izzet Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. and the Imam of Yemen.

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1 volume (342 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 57 (Yemen situation 1905-11) consists of one volume.

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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 344; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore been crossed out.

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