Two Aden TU officials were imprisoned on Dec 12th on charges of conspiring to publish a seditious .irabic p2mphlet. The men, both Arabs, are the General So. of the Aden Trades Union Congress, sentenced to 12 months and the organising officer of the Aden TUC, who received 9 months. The pamphlets 'sedition' consistéd of praise for demonstrations against th. plan to merge Aden with tho South Arabian Fed- -oration,.
An indication that the Sritish have no intention of giving up thoir Aden base and colony is afforded by an announcement on Dec. 13th that a small army town is to be built at Little Aden by Humphroys Ltd, civil engineering contractors, who were recently awarded the contract worth £3.5 millions. The town is to have army workshops and modern flat-—roofed marrivd quarters.