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File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [338r] (31/633)
The record is made up of 1 item (316 folios). It was created in 28 Feb 1919-16 Feb 1921. 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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28th ADEN tlKi.S LhTTKK.
r.T.
ADKM RJJilDEUCy,
l£th Scvenber , 1920.
The following is a summary of the news reported
since the despatch of my last letter dated 29th October
received a letter from Mahmud Nadhim, the ex-Vali of
the Yemen, in which he offers to act as mediator between
sidered the exMali's action entirely mischievous and
that he (the Xdrisi ) did not propose to send any reply.
The Idrlsi has received letters from two of the Imam's
sons and from a learned man named Salyid Mohamed All,
containing overtures for peace. It would appear that
Mahmud Nadhim(a move to Menakha is connected with this
peace movement, but that he is playing a double game.
as he did during the negotiations for the release of
the 'Jacob' Mission.
I await Captain Fazluddin's report as to the
attitude of the Idrisl in the matter of the letters
hive received a reply to his letter to the Tihama
1920.
TIHA.1A.
Captain r’azluddin writes that the Idrlsi has
him and the Imam in his capacity as the Turkish
'. ali of the Yemen and in the name of the Turkish
from the Imam’s sonse
Mahmud Nadhim is still at Menakha and is said to
Sheikhs/
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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, mostly addressed to the British High Commissioner, Cairo, which were forwarded to the Under Secretary of State for India by the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; 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 5 February 1919 to 23 December 1920. 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 Idrisi [Muhammad al-Idrisi], and include news of Colonel Harold Fenton Jacob’s diplomatic mission to the Imam on behalf of the British. The News Letters report on news from Tihama, Upper Yemen and Lower Yemen, Asir, and the Aden Protectorate.
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- File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20'
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- 323r:330v, 331v:395r, 396r:637v
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