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20th December,1922.
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or General T.2.Scott, C.B., C.I.S., D.S.O.,
Political Resident, Aden.
His Majesty’s Secretary of State fcr the Colonies,
London.
My Lord Duke,
I have the honour to refer to desoatch, dated
29th April last, from four Grace's predecessor and my
despatch i;0|8!5 of 24th May, 1922, and the subsequent
correspondence ending with Major Barrett's telegram
Wo.209 dated 22nd September 1922, relating to the supoly
of arms and ammunition to the Idrisi.
2. As will be sem from Mr. Churchill's desoatch,
referred to, it was decided that the Idrisi, whose
domain lies within the prohibited zone indicated in
Article 6 of the Arras Convention of St. Germain en Laye,
could not be supplied with arms and amnunition, unless
he gave an undertaking on tie lines laid down in tne
third chapter of the convention-
3. The Political Officer, Hodeidah, has now
obtained from him the undertaking of which I attach a
copy.
Although this undertaking is very brief, it
appears to me to meet our wishes, and that the Idrisi
has thereby agreed to exercise the necessary control
which is demanded of him.
In a letter describing his interview with
the Idrisi Captain Fazluddin writes "He undertakes not to
"use the arras and ammunition supplied to him for any
"other purpose , but for th legitimate needs of his
"government, and not to misuse them nor to trade in them
nor