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File 21/1911 Pt 3 'Aden:- Recruitment of Arabs.' [‎7r] (9/36)

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The record is made up of 1 item. It was created in May-Oct 1916. It was written in English. 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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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.' [‎7r] (9/36), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/190/3, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100035497808.0x000013> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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