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My Lords would be glad if the Secretary of State would cause them to he suuulied
with further information on this point.
3. A copy of this letter has been sent to the Foreign Office and 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. .
I am, &c.
W. GRAHAM GREENE.
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In closure 3 in No. 1.
Rear-Admiral Slade to Admiralty.
Sir ’ , —^ # , ,, “ Hyacinth,’’at Bombay, November 4,, 1909.
WITH icference to East Indies letter of the Ilth ultimo, relative to the traffic in
arms, be pleased to lay before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the annexed
copy of a memorandum addressed to the officers commanding the ships on this station
enclosing a statement showing the powers possessed by His Maiestv’s shins for
exercising the right of search and detention of vessels engaged in the arms traffic
r 2 ' 1 !? &t ’i n , der the P roc 'amations ot the Sultan of Muscat of the 13th
January, 1898, and the 17th October, 1903, to which reference is made in Admiraltv
of the 25th March 1901, of the 16th February, 1904, and of the 29th January
1904 dhows engaged in illegally exporting arms or ammunition in Oman waters, and
Muscat dhows so employed upon the high seas, are confiscated with the arms and
ammunition on board for the Sultan of Muscat. Similarly, under the agreement with
of 6 the aSt^March th 1901 Oember ’ t0 refer . ence is made in Admiralty letter
ot tne 25th March 1901, arms and ammunition seized in Persian waters or from
Persian vessels on the high seas are confiscated for the Persian Government It will
be seen, however, that I have given orders that for the present all these vessels excent
whom Tfn take ?-A n Muscat waters, are to be detained pending instruction^ The
whole of the conditions governing this trade are now so different to what they were at
the time of issue of the original orders, and the suppression of the arms traffic anncars
to be of such importance to the Empire, that it is most necessary to take all the steps
n our power to prevent the arms, ammunition, and the dhows earrvin» them from
finding their way back to Muscat or Persia, after having been olce Sred l would
urge that if the consent of the Sultan and of the Shah is necessarHefore the dTows
datecf the iRQ^Td 0 ^ ^ P roclamatio11 tte Sultan of Muscat,
the senior officers’ boxes also to be provided with copfes U1 COpleS 0 eacb ’ to euable
correfpoYd^rSThTch^rfJSVe^LlhJa d°^ Deoembe 15 r > 19 °7. forwarding
which repeal the “ Sornaman'd “ms tgulatTons^’T 1905,”
Somaliland Fire-arms Amendment (No. 2) Eeo-ulatio’ns ioi’m ? ls0 > ™ te ’ t le
1905 regulations omit anv mention of ■ Ke ^ ul . atlons ’ it is noticed that the
The 190! regulatioTcoSnX cTau/e wanUn ^f'^t if 1-3111 ^ t0 Italiaa -en-of-war.
Italian man-of-war the^amTpowe^Ts ar^grfnted 1 ^ ^ ptain f and officers of any
any British man-of-war in regard to the visit ^ ^ ca P tam and officers of
of being engaged in the traffic in arms in th ’ + • C ^ , a ? d seizure vessels suspected
and it wouhf seem 1 to ^ aquesLon^o/enm^rf 611 ^ 01,13 ^ 7 wa ^ ers of British Somaliland,
be introduced into the present regulations. 1 ^ 10n W ietber a Slm dar clause should
I have, &c.
EDMOND W. SLADE.