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File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [389r] (133/633)
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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Dear ir* ^cott:-
The following is a summary of the news reported
since the despatch of my last letter dated 30th* July 1920*
The Idrisi Commandant at Bajil, Oheiich /*ahomed
Tahir i id wan, has written to the iolitical officer, hodeida,
to say that he has intercepted a letter from okeiian oa&r ^
Mlsjaji, a Hodeida merchant, to the address of the ex-vali,
ahmood Hadhim, the purport of which, he says, is that the
Turkish Government are victorious; that ustafa hemal J?aaha,
President of the nationalists and enemy of the existing
I wretched Turkish Government, has entered Constantinople with
all his foroeeand co-operated with the ^urks there; that
Anwar l&sha has returned from Afghanistan with a large
I quantity of gold and has sent a part of it to i ustafa
hemal in order to strengthen his armies; that oolonel
Jaooh has written an article in the Times praising ahnood
Sadhim and the other Turks in the Yemen and giving hopes
for tha fulfilment of their aapirationa. lha Xdriai
Co-’aniandant saye that Kalmmaicama Jamil Bay and i.halil >ay
who are In Tarawa and through whom Shaikh umer Misjajl
transmits his letters to Mabmood Sadhim, are engaged in
1 propaganda work, the object of which is to incite the
\ irate against the British Government.
This/
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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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