Aden News Letters: 1919-20
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- Title
- Aden News Letters: 1919-20
- Publication year listed
- 1921
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- Public domain eBook
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Aden News Letters: 1919-20
Year: 1921
The file mainly consists of the following: copies of News Letters from the Political Resident , 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 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.