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File 3300/1916 Pt 4 'Aden News-Letters. (1921-23)' [‎7r] (13/644)

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The record is made up of 1 item (322 folios). It was created in 16 Feb 1921-26 Feb 1924. 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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tip### Aulnqt hrm sent to Aden hia brother
mnd son #itli a large following to ask for mnt&tmm In
orma and ammunitlnn,. 1 mn presenting tliem with a certain
mount 0f ^iminitien in order to eneourng* theta to protoot
thetii@olves #
the Cffloer Ccmnm&lnfc* l<n&im 0 ie reported to Imve
warned the d'h&lri ami other Aialri sub-tribes t© be in
readiriess to join his men who ere expected to arrive at
Eat&bm shortly* their destination may he either r^eda or
iaf a*
I have received omuplninie frmi some of the buiahi
&heikh# in the Aden f.roteotorste *m& at the earns time from,
the envoy here who inforse me that 1mmin hails m
the Subehi border have written to him complaining thsb the
aubehis within our rroteotorate have been sheltering run-
wm$ sutgeote and interfering with travellers* Xhe
envoy state© that unless the Sfubehla cease their inter-
jference with 1mmin etihjects,* action will be taken against ^
them* \
Ihe imbehi Bhe,1to» a on the other hand* complain of the
interfere nee by She fteb Eehoeied Ahmed llom^ri* the Imagi 1 ® A^il
In who recently carried away $£ donkeys leden witli
jowari belonging to the tlubehis* Xbtee donktye have been
restored to them through the intervention of His Highnese
the Abdali Multan* His 1ms warned the Bubehia not
to create trouble.
An old Alawi-Kotebi dispute concerning territory which
wss settled sone yeera ?%go by the late lol itical Cf 1 icerg
.Ohrla* lieutenant colonel lacob h # been reopened on the
oomplaint of the Alawi Bheikh made person ally to the $mm
t® the ©oouprlien of hie territory by the hoteli Sheikh*
Ahe 1mm directed the Off leer Commending* wad ire* to
peremde the lotebl Sheikh to restore the territory to tl^e
Alawl.

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The file mainly consists of the following: copies of News Letters from 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, addressed to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and then to the Secretary of State for the Colonies (from the News Letter dated 5 May 1921, forwarded 1 June 1921), which were forwarded to the Under Secretary of State for India; and 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. Political Department Minute Paper covering sheets.

The News Letters are dated from 12 January 1921 to 31 December 1923. They report on the political situation in the Yemen, largely in relation to Imam Yahya [Yahya Muhammad Hamid al-Din, who took the regnal name al-Mutawakkil ala Allah] and the Zaidi [Zaydi] tribes, and the Idrisi [Muhammad al-Idrisi]. The News Letters report on news from Tihama, Upper Yemen and Lower Yemen, Asir, and the Aden Protectorate, as well as the slave trade, illicit arms traffic (folio 89), and miscellaneous matters such as the visit of Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence to Aden on 18 August 1921 (folio 270).

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File 3300/1916 Pt 4 'Aden News-Letters. (1921-23)' [‎7r] (13/644), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/10/611/2, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100054527224.0x000017> [accessed 29 March 2024]

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