File 37/1905 Pt 5 'Aden Delimitation' [25r] (54/606)
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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ASIATIC TURKEY.
COYFIDEKTIAL.
[September 10 .]
Section 2.
[30479]
No. 1 .
Sir N. O’Conor to Sir Edward Grey.—{Received September 10.)
numbers have been inserted, and also to heights converted from feet on the original
maps to metres on the copies. &
9? i ? 0ma11 Minister for foreign 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, hut 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 Poreign Affairs might, for the reasons given in my despatch
ISo. 81 of the 7th February above referred to, he 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 he for me to he 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: “ 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 he consulted as authentic in case of difficulty
arising on any part of the demarcated line.”
cartes qui etaient annexees a ladite note verbale ont ete soigneusement comparees
avec la carte se trouvant an dit Minist5re, et qu’on y a relevd les erreurs et inexactitudes
specifiees dans la liste en 'Pure ci-annexde.*
Les erreurs et inexactitudes qu’on a constatees dans les cartes en question
proviennent probablement du fait que celles-ci ont dtd lithographiees sur des copies de
I have, &c.
(Signed) H. B. O’CONOIL
Inclosure in No. 1.
Note Verbale communicated by Sublime Porte.
EN reponse a la note verbale que PAmbassade de Sa Majestd Britannique a bien
voulu lui adresser le 30 Mars dernier, le Minist5re des Affaires Strangles a 1’honneur
de Tinformer, sur une communication du Departement Imperial de la Guerre, que les
la carte originale, tandis que la carte qui se trouve au Minist&re de la Guerre, etant
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* 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 View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/L/PS/10/67
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- File 37/1905 Pt 5 'Aden Delimitation'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:42v, 47r:119v, 122r:275v, 277r:280v, 280ar:280av, 281r:299v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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