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File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [591r] (536/633)
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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10. The Assistant Resident, Perira, was informed hy
the messenger of the above Sheikhs that they exported 70
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
loads of coffee, skins, sweet oil, ghee, jowan,
dates etc. monthly to Djibouti. This is no doubt an
exaggeration, but it confirms information from other
sources that
dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
traffic is carried on between this
coast and Djibouti.
n. A conflict between the Zeidi troops under the
salf-el-lslam and the Ahl Hutalsh has occurred o.ing to
the former demanding taxes from the latter, .he Jrl
Hubaish assisted apparently by people from Ibb, Udain.
+ ^ +n ’-‘we killed over 60 Zeidi soldiers
etc. are reported to nave kii
and to have tahen 70 prisoners including one officer
and also one gun and t.o machine guns. The bnei-nM
Sabir and Ibn Abdul Wahid mediated between the parti
nnd got the zeldls liberated on the condition that the
Imamic troops would withdraw from the Hubaish terri ory
and would take no further action in the matter. .
a to have ignored this condition and come
Zeidis appeared to nave gn
• in force but were defeated a second tirr ,
down again x . where acco rding to one
and subsequently retrea e sieged. The
nrt saif-el-lslam Ahmed bin Kassim is besieged.
of this fighting in the Hubaish oouhtr, has been
news of this , au , tj be remembered
confirmed from several ' • partisans.
+ n these renorts come from anti-Zeidi paru
that all ^ efi to have entered
,, 400 zeidi troops are reported to
... w nalmmham and invited people to sulmt
KATABA with a waim ^ of people to obey
'Z'er Ttroops'fired on the people who f-urped
this order, tne uro p , OTinr ted on both sides,
on casualties are reportea ou
the fire. 20 casual ox ^
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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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- 323r:330v, 331v:395r, 396r:637v
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