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File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [621r] (596/633)
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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latter were originally rulers of H€igariya f but were ousted
sone twenty year* age by the former who were supported by
the Turks* Both parties ask for British friendship and sup*
port* The K&sslm Hassan farally are on friendly tense with
the Abdall ttultan who has some hopes of extending his in*
flucnee in Hagariya* bereral other ft&garlya dheikhs hare
Tisited Aden in the hope of receiTing presents and support*
They include the Bhelkhs of the Yusuflyin 9 Abus* Mi'narl*
kabati* ia'sa 1 !, tthawafl, haktarl and Aghbari. They hare all
been treated politely, but X hare made no eenmltments with
any of these Bheikhs, who are outside our protectorate, and
our future policy with regard to whom is still undecided*
SHklKH MAHOMM&P HA^AJt and 3KS1BH ABI)lJi 4 A.-AdDUL WAHA Bq
T hese two Sheikhs from Lower Yemen who paid
prolonged visits to Aden in the hops of gaining our support
and material assistance hare been told that Gerermaent is net
prepared to give them munitions* They hare been given money
presents, dhelkh Mohmnmed Hass an has left and is xt new at
Jtbel Habeshi in the Tail district. Ho Is a religious leader
of seme importance* and was very hostile to the Turks, as he
new is ts the Xmssu Sheikh Abdulla Abdul ^ahab sf Ibb is
still in Aden but proposes to leave at the end of this month
though ho has boon with difficulty persuodod to deport with
out am*. H* aloo profooooo himself te bo strongly oppo ed c
the Imam.
THE BLOCKA3L .
29> In riew of tho Turkish surrender I hsre re-
moved varioue restriotiono on export* fro. Aden which had been
imposed locally, and haTO advocated tho r.sumption of
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•oiling* provided the
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* carry proper paper*.
vni.TTir.AL Oyj'IlUatd.
field fo o*
Celonel H. f. Jooeb, who wo* ottM)i«d to the
Chief Political Offioor, returned to Kgypt
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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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