IOR/L/PS/10/552

This volume contains correspondence and other papers concerning loans and other assistance given to the Sultan of Shehr [Al Shihr] and Mokalla [Al Mukalla] in the Hadhramaut. The papers cover: the 1917 loan of 400,000 rupees and a gift of arms and ammunition; the responsibility for the cost of the loan within the British and Indian Governments; matters connected to the repayment of this loan, including overdue payments; a further request, made in 1924, for a loan of 15,000,000 rupees, an increased stipend, and the grant of more arms and ammunition; a dispute over the trust fund of two of the nephews of the former Sultan, Awadh bin Omar al-Qaeety ['Awadh bin 'Umar Al Qu'ayti].

The principal correspondents are officials at the India Office, Foreign Office, Colonial Office, and the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department. Further correspondence, included as enclosures, comes from: the High Commissioner, Cairo; the Treasury; the Political Resident, Aden; Sultan Ghalib bin Awad [Ghalib bin 'Awadh Al Qu'ayti]; the Government of Bombay, Political Department; the Government of India, Accountant General Department; and Sultan Omar bin Awadth ['Umar bin 'Awadh Al Qu'ayti].

Included within the volume is a report by Lieutenant-Colonel George Stewart Symes, Resident and Commander-in-Chief at Aden, on his visit to Mokalla, 20 October 1928 (folios 64-67).

The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.