File 3300/1916 Pt 4 'Aden News-Letters. (1921-23)' [40r] (79/644)
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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which they belong could build a harbour at Taif®
These Italians are said to be those visited
Modeidab with a lady in March last and referred to in
paragraph 6 of my letter of 10th April.
Two other Italians landed at Khokha on the 26th
July from a
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
, and after spending about 4 hours on
shore, left again in the same
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
.
A Turkish Colonel, Kinan Bey, who had been
imprisoned by the Imam for attempting to escape from
the Yemen last year, has been released, and has arrived
at Hodeidah en-route for Constantinople®
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Captain Fazl-ud-Din informs me that the
Turkish newspaper "fauhid Afkar ,s has, in its issue
ox the 11th Sulhajjah 1341, A.H. (25th July, 1923),
published a map which shows Yemen as within the
boundaries of Turkey as settled by the recent Treaty
of Lausanne, with a big mark of interrogation on it.
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The Kotebi Sheikh left for Nadra on the 5th
August to see the Officer Commanding there.
In discussing peace terms with the Amil of
Dhala, the Kotebi Sheikh is sard to have expressed his
desire to be appointed Zaidi Amil of Radian and to
be allowed to retain for himself 1/lGth of the revenue
collection he makes lor the Zaidis.
The Zaidis sent an invitation to the Ahl
Abdulla Sheikh (referred to in my last letter) and
another, a relative of the Kotebi Sheikh, to come to
Dhala. The latter replied that they could not do so,
as they were friends of the British Government. A
rumour states that the Off icer Commanding, Nadra
contemplates sending a force under the command of
the
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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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