Abstract: This file consists of copies of Foreign Office and Colonial Office correspondence regarding the proposed appointment of a British Consul at Hodeidah [Al Ḩudaydah], Yemen.The correspondence discusses a proposal, put forward by the Political Resident at Aden, Major-General John Henry Keith Stewart, for the Civil Administrator at Kamaran, Captain Wickham (whose post is under Government of India control), to be appointed Political Officer of the Southern Red Sea Coast, with the existing Hodeidah mission placed under his control. In the correspondence Stewart suggests that such an appointment would be preferable to the present arrangement, which requires the person currently in charge of the office of Political Officer at Hodeidah, namely Stewart's First Assistant Resident in Aden, to engage in 'avoidable correspondence' with the Political Clerk at Hodeidah, since he is not able to leave his duties in Aden.The principal correspondents are the Political Resident at Aden, the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Leopold Stennett Amery), and various officials of the Colonial Office and Foreign Office.The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 30; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.
Abstract: This file concerns Saudi-Yemeni relations, beginning with the final weeks of hostilities between the two countries before going on to cover peace negotiations and the reoccupation of Hodeidah (also transliterated as Hodeida) by the Yemeni authorities, following the gradual withdrawal of Saudi troops.Related matters discussed in the correspondence include the following:The situation at Hodeidah, as reported by the Commanding Officer of HMS
Penzance.Arrangements for the simultaneous withdrawal of foreign warships from Hodeidah.The progress of Saudi-Yemeni treaty negotiations, and the wording of the resulting Treaty of Taif, concluded between Saudi Arabia and Yemen on 20 May 1934, and ratified on 22 June 1934.Costs recovered from the Imam of Yemen [Yaḥyā Muḥammad Ḥamīd al-Dīn] by the British for the internment of Yemeni soldiers in Aden during the Saudi-Yemeni conflict.Details of other costs incurred by the British during the Saudi-Yemeni War, as calculated by the Political Resident at Aden [Bernard Rawdon Reilly], and discussion as to whether any part of these expenses should be borne by Government of India revenues.The reported presence of members of the Idrisi [al-Idrīsī] family in Mecca.In addition to correspondence the file includes the following:Extracts from Aden, Bahrain, and Kuwait political intelligence summaries.Copies of an English translation of the Treaty of Taif.A copy of an English translation of the Treaty between King Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] and the Idrisi [Sayyid Muḥammad bin ‘Alī al-Idrīsī], signed on 31 August 1920.Copies of extracts from reports from the Senior Officer of the Red Sea Sloops, as well as copies of reports from the commanding officers of HMS
Penzanceand HMS
Enterpriserespectively.The file features the following principal correspondents: His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard); His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires to Jedda (Albert Spencer Calvert); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (Philip Cunliffe-Lister); the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir John Simon); the Senior Officer of the Red Sea Sloops; the Commander of HMS
Penzance; His Majesty's Ambassador in Rome (James Eric Drummond); the Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Yemen; officials of the Colonial Office, the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Admiralty.Although the file includes material dating from 1934 to 1938, most of the material dates from 1934. The French material consists of three telegrams addressed to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs by Yemen's Minister for Foreign Affairs.The file includes two dividers which give a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. These are placed at the back of the correspondence (folios 2-3).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 458; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
Abstract: The volume contains parts 1 and 2 of the subject ‘Hodeidah and Jeddah Consulates’. Part 1 (IOR/L/PS/10/86/1) concerns the expenditure of the Hodeidah Consulate. Part 2 (IOR/L/PS/10/86/2) concerns the expenditure of the Jeddah Consulate. Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence. The date range gives the covering dates of all the documents in the volume; the Political Department minute and reference papers of the India Office in London, which enclose these documents, are dated 1905-1910.Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 277; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 3-275; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled, and are located in the same position as the main sequence.
Abstract: Part four consists of correspondence relating to an Italian blockade of parts of the Red Sea coast of present-day Saudi Arabia. Several matters are covered by the correspondence:the classification of Turkish grain ships as contraband of war by the Italians;the Italian blockade of Hodeidah [Ḥudaydah] and reported intention of extending it to Jeddah and Yenbo [Yanbuʻ al-Baḥr];the Italian threat to bombard Hodeidah;the appeal for British protection from the British Indian population of the town;impediments to the embarkation of European goods;the British demand for assurances from the Italians that the blockade will not be extended and British Indian subjects will be safe.The correspondence is mostly between the Turkish Government, Turkish Embassy in London, Political Resident at Aden, British Embassies at Constantinople and Rome, and the British Consulate at Jeddah.Physical description: 1 item (70 folios)
Abstract: Papers relating to the incarceration by Turkish authorities of the British Vice-Consul at Hodeida (also spelt Hodeidah) [Al-Ḥudaydah], George Alexander Richardson, Richardson’s wife, Mary Richardson, and the French Vice-Consul at Hodeida, Monsieur Roux, in the wake of the destruction of a Turkish cargo vessel in Hodeida harbour by the crew of HMS
Minto, on 4 November 1914. The file includes:Papers detailing diplomatic efforts to secure the release of the three prisoners. Papers refer to the Italian Government’s protest to the Turkish Government over the incident in Hodeida, in which the Italian Consulate was raided by Turkish officers, and the efforts of the Italian Vice-Consulate at Hodeida, Cavaliere Gino Cecchi, to secure the release of the prisoners.Richardson’s account of his capture, incarceration, and subsequent release on 6 February 1915 (ff 62-86).Mary Richardson’s own account of events (ff 43-58).A draft note from Arthur Hirtzel of the India Office, addressed to the Secretary of State, conceding that HMS
Mintohad been instructed to ‘proceed up the Red Sea & destroy Turkish steamers and dhows’, and that HMS
Mintohad set fire to the Turkish vessel before the proclamation of war with Turkey was formally signed (f 60).Other subjects covered in the file include:Prior to Richardson’s incarceration, discussion between the Foreign Office and Government of India over the entrustment of British Indian interests at Hodeida to the port’s Italian Vice-Consul (ff, 151-154, ff 159-162).After Richardson’s release, the Italian Vice-Consul’s assumption of British consular affairs at Hodeida, and the approval of his work amongst Government officials and members of the Indian merchant community at Hodeida (ff 18-37).Correspondence amongst British officials dated 1916 and 1917, enquiring after the prospect of formally recognising the work done by foreign consular officials at Aden, particularly that of the Italian Vice-Consul at Hodeida (ff 2-14).Physical description: Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 162; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
Abstract: This part of the volume contains correspondence and other papers concerning relations between Nejd, Transjordan, Hejaz, Yemen, and the Idrisi state, as well as policy in Arabia more generally. Correspondence comes from officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, War Office, the Political Residency in Aden, the Office of the High Commissioner in Palestine, the Office of the High Commissioner in Cairo, the Office of the High Commissioner in Iraq, and the British Agency at Jeddah. Further correspondence comes from King Hussein [Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī] of the Hejaz, his sons Emir Abdullah [ʿAbdullāh bin Ḥusayn al-Hāshimī] and Emir Feisal [Fayṣal bin Ḥusayn bin ‘Alī al-Hāshimī], the French Ambassador in London, and officials of the German and United States Governments.This part deals with relations between Nejd and the neighbouring territories of Transjordan, the Hejaz, Yemen, and the Idrisi state. Matters covered include the supply of Arms to the Idrisi, control of Hodeidah and the proposed withdrawal of the British garrison there, the British subsidy to Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd]of Nejd, efforts to reach an agreement between the Hejaz and Nejd, trouble along the Transjordan boundary involving the Ikhwan and local tribes, and future British policy in the region.Physical description: 1 item (133 folios)