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'Arabia. Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office - no 90' [60] (75/148)
The record is made up of 1 volume (69 folios). It was created in 1919. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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60 ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
America, and India. Aden is also the chief emporium
of Arabian trade, receiving the small quantities of
native produce, and supplying the modest wants of thq
interior and of most of the smaller Arabian ports.
Besides this, it furnishes coal and provisions to ships
calling, and has to import the whole of its own require
ments, as it produces nothing itself but salt.
The German Consul at Bombay pointed out in his
report on Aden for 1913 that the prosperity of that
port was threatened in various ways. The French
Somaliland ports of Jibuti and Obokh were tending
more and more to export the produce of their rich hin
terland direct to France. With the rapid develop
ment of Abyssinian railways, Jibuti would become the
natural outlet for south Abyssinia, while Massawa
and Port Sudan would be the outlets of north Abys
sinia, and the process would be accelerated when Port
Sudan was connected by rail with Kassala. Again,
the projected line from Sana to Hodeida would divert
the Yemen trade from Aden to Hodeida.
Whether this would have been so or not, the recent
record of Aden's trade is very satisfactory. Its total
value had been rising steadily from £6,627,137 in
J908-9 to £9,157,499 in 1911-12. In 1913-14 it fell to
£8,526,611, and in 1914-15 to £6,939,609. In 1916-17,
however, it had risen to £10,052,287, though this in
crease was, of course, largely due to enhanced prices.
Full details of Aden's trade will be found below
pp. 120, 122, 125.
Of the 1,528 merchant ships, with an aggregate ton-
Jiage of 3,924,524 tons, which entered Aden harbour
between March 1913 and March 1914, the British num
bered 767 and the German 180. Detail of the ship
ping entered between March 1911 and March 1917 will
be found in the Appendix (Table I). Before the war
British shipping was slowly decreasing in importance,
and German was slowly rising. The most noticeable
recent feature has been the activity of Japan. Whereas
in 1911-12 only 2 Japanese ships visited Aden, in
1916-17 the number had risen to 54.
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This volume contains information on the geography, political history and economic conditions of Arabia and was published by the Historical Section of the Foreign Office in April 1919.
It is divided into four sections: 'Geography Physical and Political'; 'Political History'; 'Political Conditions' and 'Economic Conditions'. There is an Appendix, containing tables regarding trade in Aden, Muscat and Bahrein, 1909-1917.
There is a map 'Sketch Map of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. and Arabia', compiled by the War Office on June 1914.
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- 1 volume (69 folios)
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Foliation: There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the first folio with text, on number 1, and ends on the map on a sleeve on the inside back cover, on number 70.
Pagination: There is also an original pagination, iv-vi, 2-127.
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:i-v, 1:6, 1:130, ii-r:ii-v, back-i
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