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File 37/1905 Pt 4 'Aden Frontier Delimitation' [‎34r] (74/1197)

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The record is made up of 1 file (596 folios). It was created in 1904. It was written in English, Arabic and French. 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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by His"Majesty’^Gov-^nment M^ the i n f?T atio11 whi <* been received
by the Tarkish Government and H e t . battah °“ s f? e beia g sent to Yemen
be conveyed to the Porte that British w eS , ram coaol uded with an intimation to
would proceed, if necessmv'l ®^^^^^ 11 Th" Wa ? to Aden ’
and Intrepid from the Meditemnean i ^°i! j' ■ d l , u cruisers Rermione
to Aden, fed they arrived thTre Twl thl had m c facfc beei1 despatched
, proceeding. 7 m 'e« there while the movement of troops to Dthala was
with In aAuale'^o'rto ^e^in'^eX-Th'e f° W ^ ab to P roeeed -
had placed garrisons had beeTcXleTelv evaclted° and P ' Vbere ‘ be Turks
likely to interfere with the rights of the AmA of Dthala ^Thi/d^
Commission was to proceed to Lakhmat-as-Shub and to call upon the Tn-Vh
Commission to meet them, but the camp of the Turkish Commk io^, !
be at some point outside of the line claimed by the British Co.mSiloners
comp'L C e OD wr\S b rnlionI° n :U 7 tt ’ZTW “ de “»^
promised to disband their TeLTte^J^ tbe^uThoX"f tfe
Amir, and to withdraw to tho neighbourhood of i i i ’ i ^
garrison of Jalela would be reduced to about 50 men. The orders they had^eroived
from Constantinople however, described Jalela as a milUary posT t OltoZn
to nfnry, and agamst tins Colonel Wahab strongly, protested With regard to
bis instructions to visit Mafari, Jabal Jiliaf, &e., in order to verify tbeir comnleto
s.Vl Cu f. 1011 ’ be pointed out that this was a proceeding which would involve con
NW r Sk ’ lf °f rrled . out b0fore arrival of the reinforcements from Aden
ertbeless, on the arrival of the first detachment, he went to Jihaf and Mafari
Turks to withdraw - at ° nC r a pei ' eiH P toI '- v written demand from the
Mr Pity n ltbdravv tUBPOiiiateiy a request which was, of course, disregarded
Mi. 1'itzmaunce also reported that the Turks were profoundly, though wrono-
be tra ‘“"fj ed ’ * but f lat ** ^ ld not a P pear Probable that their irritation would
at h^d T ■ Wt0a ^° U - The Turks bad not in fact any considerable force
of British to Wa ? n le "fff 1 Sarr , is ° a of an >' strea ^th. but the appearance
o± British troops at Dar Akkam made them unwilling to weaken it 4 few
hundred men amved m driblets from the north, hut it is probable that the
total numbers available were not equal to the British forces at Dthala and
hurrying up towards that place.
• February Colonel Wahah visited Lakhmat-as-Saleh and
reinstated the rightful Sheikh. The Turkish nominee had lied some days before
and was said to be trying to raise the tribes on the Turkish side of the border"
m which endeavour he was receiving assistance from our old enemy, Muhammad
Wasir Mukbil. The fourth place “ Suheb,” or Jabal Shahad, was to be
evacuated when the Turkish Commission withdrew to Kataba. In the mean
time, the Amir regained possession of bis territories, and supplies began to reach
the British camp from the Amiri country, from which it had been for so lono*
cut off. ^
/ 8 . The Amir of Dthala now earnestly begged for the delimitation of his
border before the Commission moved away elsewhere, and his request was strongly
supported by the British Commissioners, and by the Resident. Lord Curzon
had already urged His Majesty’s Government to the same course, point
ing out that the Dthala plateau was the key of the whole question (paragraph
68 ). The Resident also reminded His Majesty’s Government that until we
had bound the Yaffai and other tribes to us by some formal engagement, deli
mitation to the north-east must necessarily involve risk, especially so long as
the Turks remained in occupation of Jalela.
79. On 7 th or 8 th March, the last detachment of the reinforcements from
Aden reached Dthala, where a month’s supplies for the force had also been
accumulated. The whole movement was carried out, without a hitch, in live
weeks from the date on which the order to collect camels was receive! in Aden.
The total strength of the troeps on the Dthala plateau, after the completion of
con 1049—5

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This file contains correspondence and documents related to the work of the Aden Boundary Commission, the British Government body tasked with the delineation of the borders of the British Protectorate of Aden. Much of the correspondence in the file relates specifically to the Subaihi border region.

The file contains a number of letters from Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab, the Commissioner of the Aden Boundary Commission, sent to the Political and Secret Department of the 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. in London (and the British Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. in Aden). The file also contains extracts from Wahab's diary related to his work on the commission.

The file contains a detailed report on the demarcation of the frontier entitled: 'Report on the Demarcation of the Frontier between the Tribes in the Protectorate of Aden and the Turkish Province of Yemen; by Major-General P. J. Maitland, C.B., Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Aden' (folios 25-44).

The file contains a number of maps as follows:

  • a printed map of the Sheikh Sa'id Peninsula (folio 94);
  • a printed map of the border region of the British protectorate of Aden (folio 112);
  • a printed map entitled 'Map of Haushabi and Subaihi Border' with list of place names in English and Arabic (folio 237);
  • a printed map of the Sheikh Sa'id Peninsula (folio 239);
  • a hand-drawn entitled 'Map Illustrating Southern Subaihi Frontier Proposals Referred to in Sir N O'Conor's Telegram No. 112' (folio 288);
  • a printed sketch-map entitled 'Aden Boundary Commission Survey Sketch Accompanying No. 19 of 15th March 1904' (folio 291);
  • a printed sketch entitled 'Aden Boundary Commission Survey Sketch Accompanying No. 21 of 15th March 1904' (folio 456);
  • a printed map entitled 'Aden Frontier Survey, Subaihi Boundary in Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. Ma'din' (folio 457).

The file also contains correspondence related to French claims of ownership over Sheikh Said (Cheikh Said), a peninsula near the island of Perim on the Mandeb Strait at the entrance to the Red Sea. The file contains original copies of articles on this topic that were printed in the French newspaper La Dépêche Coloniale in September and October 1904 .

The majority of the correspondence in the file is in English, but also enclosed is a limited amount of correspondence from the Ottoman Ambassador in London that is in French.

The volume includes a divider which gives the year that the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in it arranged by year. This divider is placed at the front of the volume.

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1 file (596 folios)
Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

The Subject 37 (Aden) contains 5 files, IOR/L/PS/10/63-67.

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Foliation: the foliation commences at the inside front cover and terminates at the inside back cover; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.

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English, Arabic and French in Latin and Arabic script
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