File 3300/1916 Pt 3 'Aden News-Letters: 1919-20' [‎638r] (630/633)

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Sxtra«% from rittea •tatement* giTen to the Politieel Resident
Aden by the Suropean British prisoners of war with urk®*
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In the Vilayet of Yeaen no a&ssaere of Christians or others
has taken plaee* They hare bee# finaneAnlly exploited and some
hare been inprisoned f but no one has oeen killed* There ere naxiy
diseiplos of the sthool of nassaers in the Ysnen,but the Vdly has
kept order and protested the foreign siibjeots fron &%£ treatment*
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The Imam stated that he was personally free fron all fanati-
e^wa end hatred of peoples of other religions then musli»*but that
he was surrounded by Saids and others who did not shers his feel
ings* He wishes to develop his tountry on the lines of yyt;
whieh he had heard about ? but the development must neeeeserily be
of a alow nature, owing to the backward state of hie people*He ^
urge* Hi* elaim* to the greater part ef the euen^an^hisanee st
ore had at one ti*e dominated the whole, heh^notheffneonjueri
gj the Turks, tut had merely had an allianee witn ^^Jt***.?*.
war.- leafing!he expeeted that h*e original boundaries would t#
reeogniset,and that parts of the eountry.ewen t o e i n
eould not now dominate,would not to handed orer to ot er nati e
shiefs #