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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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was received with general regret by the inhabi-
tants of the Sudan, but it was arranged that Sir
Reginald Wingate, who had already ruled the
country with conspicuous ability for 17 years,
should remain both Sirdar and Governor-
General, being represented when at Cairo by
an acting Governor at Khartum.
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In their attacks on the Aden Protectorate,
which is politically a dependency of Bombay,
the Turks directed their energies first to that
part of the territory bordering the eastern
entrance to the Red Sea. The town of Aden
lies on the southern coast of Arabia, 100 miles
east of the Red Sea, and its value as a port of
call on the Suez Canal route to and from India
needs no emphasis. The protectorate covers
a very wide area ; indeed, the chiefs of Hadra-
mut and of the whole coastof southern Arabia
are in subordinate treaty relations with the
Government of India. In the north-west the
protectorate adjoins the Turkish province of
Yemen ; the frontier between British and
Turkish territory had been delimitated as recently

THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR. 401
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A STREET IN ADEN


as 1903-5. Tho frontier starts at Sheikh Said,
the peninsula which divides the Red Sea from
the Gulf of Aden, riinning thence in a general
north-east direction. Save for part of its
southern beach, Sheikh Said was left in Turkish
territory. Only two miles from the Arabian
shore, in tho Strais of Bab-el-Mandeb, lies the
British inland of Perim, largely used by mer-
chant vessels as a coaling station. Guns
mounted at Sheikh Said might be therefore ad
menac to all users of the Red Sea. The
Turks had in fact several batteries in position,
and with thase they shelled, ineffectively,
Perim lighthouse and coaling station. More-
over, tho enemy plans included the capture of
Perim Island. The project, in view of British
naval supremacy, may seem to have been
foolish, but even temporary success would have
causeed serious inconvenience.
On the outbreak of war with Turkey reports
from the Resident of Aden indicated that the
enemy were in some strength in the Sheikh Said
peninsula and were preparing a force to invade
the Aden protectorate. Accordingly on Nov-

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