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File 520/1911 'Arabia:- Arms Traffic in the Yemen.' [‎66r] (136/342)

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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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Government to the inconvenience caused to the
British and Italian Governments by the unre
stricted trade in arms at Jibuti. He was to appeal
to the Brussels Act, and also to Article YI. of the
Anglo-Erench Agreement of 1888, and to inquire
whether the French Government would he prepared
to take part in concerted action for suppressing the
traffic.
Orders issued for regulating the
traffic at Jibuti in 1901 ; their
character.
(Acting Consul-General Cordeaux, No. 141,
11th October 1901.)
Aden letter, No. 118, dated 16th October
1901.
(Arms Traffic Print, Sect. 65.)
In October 1901 the Consul-General at Berbera
reported that orders regulating the import and sale
of arms and ammunition at Jibuti had recently
been issued by the French Somali Protectorate
authorities.
The precise intention of these orders the Consul-
General had been unable to ascertain, but he
thought they must be “of a strictly prohibitive
nature,” judging from the effect produced by their
promulgation on the local market. The merchants
were hastily selling off their stock and shipping it
on board dhows bound for ports on the Bed Sea
littoral, for Bas Ara, Mokallah, and even Basra.
In the meantime, they were raising a great outcry
and bringing pressure to bear upon the Home
Government. This resulted in some abatement
from the “ strictly prohibitive ” character of the
orders, which it was arranged were not to take full
effect until the time allowed for disposing of
existing stocks, including consignments already
on the w 7 ay, had elapsed. Moreover, information
was given by the Italian Consul-General to the
Aden authorities, to the effect that the orders had
been rescinded so far as the Turkish dominions
were concerned, and that they had actually been
in force as against Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. for two days
only.
Further representations to French
Government.
(Despatch to India, No. 13, dated 11th
April 1902, Enclosure 2.)
On 6th December 1901 Sir E. Monson called
attention to the fact that the instructions issued
to the Governor of French Somaliland to adhere
strictly to the provisions of the Brussels Act did
not seem to have had the desired effect. The
French Government replied that they had issued
instructions and did not feel called upon to do
more ; that no arms could be sold in Jibuti without
the Governor’s knowledge, and that they were
powerless to prevent the shipping of arms for ports
outside the zone contemplated bv the Brussels
Act.*
The traffic at Jibuti; how far regu
lated.
Despatch to India, No. 13, dated Uth
April 1902, Enclosure 9, Annex 3.
In February 1902 the Commander of H.M.S.
“ Cossack,” in a report on the conditions of the
traffic at the time, said: “The French authorities
“ do not allow arms to be sold to Somali tribes,
“ but there is no difficulty in obtaining a permit
“ to ship . . . it* the Captain declares he is
“ bound to an Arabian port.”
* Viz. : “ The territories comprised between latitude 20 N.
“ and 22 S., and extending westward to the Atlantic Ocean and
“ eastward to the Indian Ocean and its dependencies. 1 ’
S. 39. B

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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.

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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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English and French in Latin script
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