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File 520/1911 'Arabia:- Arms Traffic in the Yemen.' [9r] (22/342)
The record is made up of 1 file (167 folios). It was created in 10 Feb 1911-20 Oct 1911. It was written in English 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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This Document is the Property of His Britannic Majesty’s Government.]
ARMS TRAFFIC.
CONFIDENTIAL.
[29315
o cxpiq
[August 11.]
Section 1.
No. 1.
Sir Edward Grey to the Marquis Imperiali.
Your Excellency, Foreign Office, August 11, 1911.
ON the 29th June last I had the honour to inform your Excellency that Jlis
Maiestv’s Government agreed generally with the proposal of the Italian Government
that an arrangement should he come to between Great Britain, Italy, France, and
the Porte respecting the measures to be taken to check the smuggling of arms into
the Yemen bv sea. ^ His Majesty’s Government were, however, not in a position to
accept any measures which would he applied outside the territorial waters oi the
On the 8th ultimo Count Manzoni stated that the Italian Government agreed to
this limitation, and added, in the course of conversation, that the French Government
were unable to join in the proposed understanding, as they had already come to terms
ha-re now ascertained from His Majesty’s Ambassador in Paris that the French
Government consider that their arrangement with the Porte must be adhered to
As your Excellency has not informed me that the attitude adopted by the I rene
Government has modified the wishes of the Italian Government, I assume that they
would now desire that Great Britain and Italy should alone make proposals to the
Should this view- be correct, I have the honour to suggest that the British and
Italian Ambassadors at Constantinople should be instructed to_ a< J cll ' es * ^ j c ^
to the Porte in the sense of the draft agreement communicated to me by your
Excellency on the 25th May last, omitting all reference to the Iiench Goveinme
and limiting the zone of operations to the territorial waters o ie^
’ E. GREY.
[2144 /—l]
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The file concerns arms traffic by sea into Yemen in the course of the rebellion there against Turkish rule.
The principal correspondents are senior officials of the Foreign Office, 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. , and the Admiralty; the Viceroy of India (Lord Hardinge); and diplomatic representatives of the Governments of the Ottoman Empire (also referred to as Turkey), France and Italy.
The papers cover: diplomatic exchanges between the governments involved following a request by the Turkish Government to halt the illicit import of arms into Yemen by sea; discussion of the response of the British, French and Italian Governments to the possible seizure by the Turkish authorities of vessels (sambuks, dhows) under the protection of those Governments; the use of British, French and Italian naval vessels to patrol the area; the right of the Ottoman authorities to seize British vessels in the Red Sea; and discussions over an agreement between the four Governments to suppress arms traffic.
Correspondence from the Turkish and French Governments is in French.
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- 1 file (167 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in chronological order (except where enclosures of an earlier date follow their relevant covering letter) from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 520 (Arms Traffic in the Yemen) consists of one volume only.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 169. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- File 520/1911 'Arabia:- Arms Traffic in the Yemen.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:19v, 21r:24v, 26r:30v, 33r:39v, 41r:81v, 85r:86v, 89r:103v, 106r:106v, 109r:109v, 121r:136v, 141r:153v, 155r:165v, 167r:168v, back-i
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