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File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [467r] (288/633)
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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ed* ITifc ioliowing t re the notes of interview:-
xl Cr^ptain Jaudat formerly belonged to the li/119 of
the yemen Army Corps, «rid wae stationed at en kha«li?iXly
in 1914, he was appointed to command a f :iilli 1 battalion
of .ih&fa'i Arabs at Tals*
In May 1915, he acoempiinied Oener .1 ^aet d x asha
with the hahc j ; xpeditionary xorce, n the occupi tion of
Lahej, he wi s »tt, ched to headquarters hs arf bio Inte r*
pretcr, nd w«s fre u ntly despatched on aai-ee-i-efts to the
ifadli t Y fai and .ubehi districts on va rious missions^
He was at i'ai* on leave w n the arraistioe with
y i d. ■ |Mg N I fel Wi to i| t 11 Wi I MU
to proceed as he leant that one of the terms of the
armistice demnded the evacuation of yria by the urks«
Jaudat key is a >yriiJi and a native of *ublus A
hater, he was summoned to i-ana by General Tewfid
Pasha
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and ahmud i adhim Bey, but declined to h ve anything
further to do with the xurks, as it was generraiy believed
that *.yria would be freed from Qttom n suzer inty*
^or the s me reason, be reiused to be ev acuated
with the other rurks from the yeaen und decided to remain
on at fai* till the treaty \ i th Turkey was signed when
he int naed to return to his native land*
In October last y« Jr, -»y>e4 i^asiia-el-Iazi was sent
by the Im&m on a mission to the Tai* district, e called
on Jaudat Bey with a view to inducing hi* to enter the
Imoi^s service, but met with no success*
XA1Z, The Amil is .iyyed Ahmed Basha, *ho with haib
Abdurrahman Bffendi rnd adi Abdul ASi*, notables of that
to n, is in ana at present on An important visit.
Ihe makd.ai or ImaMie military oommander ie uyyed
AU ibn i.l-famlr, who h s a force of about 5000 Heidis
under hi* in the whole district, 12 gune nd 7 *axl*e #
2500 men with ^yyed Ali ^re in fai* itself. bdJ *
under heikh Abcul t ahab and ador ed Ahmed Xom?ui left oa
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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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