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File 37/1905 Pt 5 'Aden Delimitation' [82r] (168/606)
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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1 ihis Do^4iio.6iit is the Property oi His B ritannic Majesty s Goverii]nent.j
' TTTT? t? l a -u n n 1 , Fore ' l 9 n Office* January 11, 1905.
THE French Ambassador told me to-day that he had obserTed'Hhat we were
engaged m a discussion with the Turkish Government as to the boundary of the Aden
cantons. He wished to take this opportunity of reminding me that France had certain
claims at bheikh [ ? J Said, Avhere, he thought, about the year 1867, a Concession had
been obtained by a private French Company, and notified to the French Government.
They had no desire to raise the question, but it was desirable that we should be aware
that it existed. I replied that, without making any admissions as to the rights of
I lance at Sheikh Said, 1 was able to say at once that the frontier line, as we proposed
to draw it, would strike the coast at a point considerably further south'than that place.
It was therefore not necessary that the question of Sheikh Said should be discussed
between us.
[January 11.]
The Marquess of Lansdowne to Sir F. Bertie.
I am, &c.
(Signed)
LANSDOWNE.
[1823 /—l]
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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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- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/10/67
- Title
- File 37/1905 Pt 5 'Aden Delimitation'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:42v, 47r:119v, 122r:275v, 277r:280v, 280ar:280av, 281r:299v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence