File 37/1905 Pt 5 'Aden Delimitation' [‎50v] (105/606)

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and other proofs on the subject Mr. Fitzmaurice British Commissioner, states
that, although these documents and proofs together with the evidence of the
natives interrogated the previous year on the spot have shown that the
Western horde? of the Snbehi extends to ’Akama, thence passes through
’Akkar up to the spot called Kudam, the British Government, animated by a
conciliatory spirit and its traditional feelings of friendship towards the
Imperial Ottoman Government, has not deemed fit, at the moment of demar-
Sn, to effectively support the rights of the Subehi Sheikhs over all the
territory claimed by them up to the aforesaid line of Akama, Akkar and
Kudan^and has consequently approved the suggestion of its Commissioners
to delimit on the basis of a line which starting from Barb Am Ashara (LXV)
reaches, at a distance of *5 kilometers to the north-western of Barb Am Ashara
the summit of J. Numan situated on the watershed between the Bed Sea and
the Gulf of Aden, on the condition, however, that the Imperial Ottoman Govern
ment undertakes never to alienate to a third Power the territory lying between
this latter line and the above-mentioned line of Akama, Akkar and Kudam ;
that as the result of pour-parlers between the two friendly Governments, the
British Embassy at Constantinople had just informed him that instructions m
the above sense have been despatched by the Sublime Porte to tne Ottoman
Commissioner.
Colonel Mustapba Remzi Bey states that he has in fact received through
the Imperial Ministry of War instructions dated the 6-19 March and based on
an Imperial Irade Pf His Imperial Majesty the Sultan ordermg h.m so
delimit the border of the Subehi Canton by a line terminating at Husn Murad,
and that according to the instructions which have reached him, the Sublime
i Porte uStonever to alienate to a third Power the territory adjoining and
| situated to the north of the is uman*Husn-Murad line.
Thereupon the two Commissioners draw up a detailed description^ of the
section of the frontier between Barb Am ’Ashara (LXV) and the terminus at
Husn Murad, and draw this line on the maps which they sign and exchange.
As regards the part of the frontier north-east _ of
the line which, according to the Imperial Irade ot 12th Febr „ ary igoatN.s.)
ftarts from Lakamat-Es-Shub and proceeds in a north-east direction up to
the desert Mr. Eitzmaurice, British Commisssioner, states that, as one portion
of this line, i.e ,the Shabi-Mares border, has already been demarcated,
there remains the question of fixing a basis for prolonging this line up to the
desert; that, in virtue of the Imperial Irade above quoted, this part of t e
demarcation should follow, in general, the true north-east line fr °“ ^ a “ at '
Es Shub up to the desert, except of course such- deviations as the features ot
• the ground P may necessitate ; and that the documents and other proofs furnished
bv the Sheikhs of Yafa, establish indisputably that the places called Rube
Aten, Nawa and Dabiani form part of the Canton of Yafa, while the Antaki
fnlur : Awalik) with all their subdivisions and dependencies, as also all other
Yafa districts lying to the south and east of the aforesaid north-eas me
| belong to the “ Niue Cantons.”.
The Colonel, Mustapha Remzi Bey, Ottoman Commissioner, replies that
accordance with the instructions received from his Government, he
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oral the N. 4<5 0 E. line from Lakamat-Es-Shub up to the desert ; that
provided the Uzles of Jnhan remains part of the Kaza of Bada, he recognises
that the Uzles of Bube’aten, Nawa and Babiam form part of the Canton ot
Yafa, and that the Awalik with all their sub-divisions and dependencies, as also
all other Yafa district lying to the south and east of the above north-east line
belong to the “ Nine Cantons.”
The Ottoman Commissioner adds that in the neighbourhood of Sheikh Said
the natives and others on the Turkish side have been in the habit of getting
water brought from wells on the Suhehi side and that he trusts there is no
obiection to their continuing in the future to use these supplies ot water. Mr.
Eitzmaurico states that his Government would have no objection on this score.
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