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File 37/1905 Pt 5 'Aden Delimitation' [‎23r] (50/606)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (300 folios). It was created in 1905-1907. It was written in English, French and Arabic. 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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[This Document is thG Property of His Britannic Majesty s Govern
ASIATIC TURKEY. [September 10.]
CONFIDENTIAL. Section 2..
(No. 609.)
Sir, Therapia, September 1 , 1906.
WITH reference to my despatch No. 61 of the 7th Eebruary and to your despatch
No. 96 of the 8 th March last, I have the honour to report that the copies prepared at
the Survey of India Department of the maps signed on the spot by the Commissioners
for the. Aden frontier delimitation were duly forwarded to the Ottoman Minister for
Eoreign Affairs, and by him transmitted to the Turkish War Office, where they were
compared in the General Staff Department with the original signed copies, and a
number of “ discrepancies ” discovered by the Turkish officers. Mr. Eitzmaurice has
carefully examined these alleged “ discrepancies,” which are, he states, in no way
essential, and have reference mainly to places on the map where additional names and
numbers have been inserted, and also to heights converted from feet on the original
maps to metres on the copies.
The Ottoman Minister for Eoreign Affairs has forwarded to me in a note verbale of
the 21st ultimo, copy of which is herewith inclosed, a detailed list, in Turkish, of the
discrepancies which staff officers claim to have discovered, but they are so numerous,
so microscopic, and, at the same time, so unimportant, that I do not think it is
necessary that I should trouble you with a copy or a translation of the document.
The covering note verbale from the Sublime Porte declares that the map signed by
the respective Commissioners “ is the only one which, in case of necessity, can be
consulted as authentic,” and I venture to think that this written declaration of the
Ottoman Ministry for Eoreign Affairs might, for the reasons given in my despatch
No. 81 of the 7th Eebruary above referred to, lie considered by His Majesty’s Govern
ment as tantamount to a ratification by the Porte of the results of the labours of the
Boundary Commission.
In the circumstances, I have the honour to recommend, subject to the approval of
the Government of India and of the Home Government, that the most practical
solution of the matter would be for me to be authorized to take act, by means of a
responsive note verbale, of the above-quoted declaration of the Sublime Porte, employing
some phrase to the following effect: u That the original maps signed by the respective
Commissioners are the only ones which, in conjunction with the Protocol signed at
Sheikh Said on the 20th April, 1905, can be consulted as authentic in case of difficulty
arising on any part of the demarcated line.”
I nClTT'O Sj’O
(Signed) 5 N. R. O’CONOR.
Inclosure in No. 1.
Note Verbale communicated by Sublime Porte.
EN reponse a la note verbale que I’Ambassade de Sa Majesty Britannique a bien
voulu lui adresser le 30 Mars dernier, le Ministere des Affaires Etrangeres a 1 honneur
de 1’informer, sur une communication du Departement Imperial de la Guerre, que es
cartes qui etaient annexees a ladite note verbale ont ete soigneusement comparees
avec la carte se trouvant an dit Ministere, et qu’on y a relevd les erreurs et inexactitudes
specifiees dans la liste en Turc ei-annexde. v
Les erreurs et inexactitudes qu’on a constatees dans les cartes en question
proviennent probablement du fait que celles-ci ont dtd lithographiees sur es copies c e
la carte originale, tandis que la carte qui se trouve au Ministere de a uerre, e an *
* Not printed.

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This file contains correspondence between British officials regarding the delineation of the border between the British Protectorate of Aden and the Ottoman Vilayet of Yemen.

Much of the correspondence is between officials at the Foreign Office and 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. . Much of the correspondence relates to negotiations between the British and the Ottoman Empire and the work of the Anglo-Turkish Boundary Commission (under Colonel Robert Alexander Wahab and Colonel Mustapha Remzi Bey). The file contains some copies of correspondence in French that were sent to Ottoman officials in the course of negotiations.

The file contains seven maps, the details of which are as follows:

  • a series of four maps entitled 'South Arabia, Anglo-Turkish Boundary' Sheets 1-4 (folios 43-46);
  • a printed map entitled 'Map of Subaihi Border' with place names in English and Arabic (folio 120);
  • a printed map of the Shekh Sa'id [Sheikh Said] Peninsula (folio 121);
  • a printed map entitled 'Sketch Map of Aden Boundary' (folio 276).

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.

Extent and format
1 volume (300 folios)
Arrangement

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

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

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 300; 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, French and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script
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