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File 3086/1915 Pt 8 'Arabia: (Asir) - Supply of arms to Sayyid Idrisi' [188r] (7/573)
The record is made up of 1 item (283 folios). It was created in 21 Sep 1915-12 Feb 1920. 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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Draft Paper
Political & Secret
IS 7
Department
Tne Unaer Secretary of State
Foreign Orxice#
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.
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| 0 Feoruary 19ii0*
(69265) Wt. P210/17 Gp.163 5000 5-19 W B & L
(70076) P715/29 „ 5000 8-19
Sir,
Wixh rexerence xo your
letter No.1506«54/m.E/ 44A, dated
November 26th, 1919, regarding the
supply of arms to the Idrisi
Saiyid of Asir; I am directed by xhe
Secrexary of State for India to
inform you that he has received no
reports from the Resident Aden,
indicating that any payment has
yet been made in respect of the
munitions supplied to tne Idrisi
"on repayment".
Mr.Montagu assumes that any
enquiries on the subject will be
addressed by your Department
direct to the Resident at Aden.
He would invite attention to the
printed statement dated 25th
November 1916 which accompanied my
letter of the 2'/th July 1917, from
which it will be seen uhat items
1 and 2 of the Ministry of Shipping^
list enclosed in your letter under
reply, refer to consignments of
Wetterli ammunition supplied through
the War Office.
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Correspondence discusses cost and type of ammunition required by the Idrisi including the dispatch of one million rounds of Le Gras ammunition to Aden and instructions to the British Ambassador, Rome, regarding Vetterli ammunition (and the behaviour of the Zaranik shaikhs). Also discussed are the views of 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, on the position of the Idrisi.
Includes copy (folios 445-446) of a treaty concluded with 'Saiyid Muhammad bin Ali bin Muhammed bin Ahmed bin Idris, the Idrisi Saiyid and Amir of Sabia' [Sayyid Muḥammad bin ‘Alī al-Idrīsī], which lays out the agreement to 'war against the Turks'. In return the British promise to support the Idrisi Sayid with ammunition, protect him from attack, adjudicate a dispute with Imam Yahya [Yaḥyá Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn] and allow the Idrisi ports to trade freely with Aden despite a British blockade of all Turkish-controlled ports in the Red Sea. Also included is a report (folios 415-418) by the First Assistant Resident, Aden (Harold Fenton Jacob), of a visit to the Idrisi Saiyid Muhammad bin Ali bin Muhammad bin Ahmed at Jezan.
Correspondents include: Government of India, Finance Department; Accountant General, Bombay; 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 (Brigadier Charles Henry Uvedale Price); the Secretary to the Government of India in the Foreign and Political Department, Simla; Secretary of State for India (Austen Chamberlain); the French Ambassador to London; the British Embassy, Rome; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey).
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