"ملف ١١/٢ يوميّات وتقارير: سلسلة الجزيرة العربية" [و‎‎٤‎٤] (٢٢٢/٨٧)

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(64)
{Received on 16th June,. 1934, with Political Secretary’s letter No. 22, dated the
31st May 1934.)
Enclosure in Colonial Office, covering letter, dated 28th May, 1934.
(Letter from the Boy Scouts Association, London, to thh Colonial Office,
No. 14037, dated the- 9th May, 1934.
'Would you be good enough to let us know the political position in Aden. At
the moment the Scout Movement there is under our Bombay officials, but the Aden
Association is anxious to come directly under Imperial Headquarters here, and
put forward their request on the grounds that Aden is now politically and
administratively free from India. ' *
Enclosure to Serial No. (64).
Letter from the Colonial Office to the Boy Scouts Association, London,
No. 37912(34, dated the 19th May, 1934.
I am directed by Secretary Sir Philip Cnnliffe-Lister to acknowledge the
receipt oi your letter No. 14037 of the 9th of May, and to inform you that no
change in the political position at Aden has taken place, and that the administra
tion of the Aden Settlement is still under the Government of India. I am to add
that the question of the future control of Aden will be considered in conjunction
with the impending constitutional changes in India, but that the Secretary of State
regrets that he is not in a position to give any further information at present on
^ the point.
(65>
{Received on 30th June, 1934, with Political Secretary's letter No. 24, dated the
14th June, 1934'.)
Enclosure in Colonial Office covering letter No. 197G|12|32-Ajcs., dated the
7th June, 1934.
Lei ter from the Besident, Aden, to the C olonial Office, No. 130, dated the
22nd May, 1934.
W ith reference to the letter No. 197Gil2!32-A|cs., dated 11 th April, 1934
from the Accounting Officer, Colonial Office, I have the honour to state that the
old Ke si deucy Fngidaire has been sold for Rs. 50 and this amount has been
credited to the Colonial Office account for the month ef May, 1934.
2 . I regret that it has been impossible to obtain a better price for it..
( 66 )
{Received on 28th June, 1934, ivith Political Secretary’s tetter No. 23, dated the
7th June, 1934.)
Letter from the Department of Overseas Trade, to the Foreign Office,
No. 0.-39, dated the 23rd May, 1934.
Very many thanks for yeur letter of May 22nd about Mr. K. S. TwitchelPs
activities in prospecting for gold in Arabia, i recollect quite distinctly the earlier
secret information regarding the matter.
2 . Apart from this, the only information which I have about Twitchell’s pre
sent activities here is that I believe he is addressing a. small meeting of the-
Central Asian Society, to be held in their offices in Grosvenor Street, but as I have
lost the ticket, I fear that I cannot state on what date this meeting is to take place.
Probably, however, pome member of your Department belongs to the Central
Asian Society and either attended the meeting, or will know when it is to take
place.
3. I had gathered, from a conversation with McFarlane of Gellatly Hanker
and Company Limited that their object in taking a share in this project was less
in the hope of obtaining any substantial return tharf from a sense of the need of
watching what Philby and Twitchell. were up to Philbv’s previous escapade in
regard to gold in the Assyrian Desert turned out, as you will remember, to be a-
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