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Coll 1/12 'Policy in the Protectorate: treaty with the Upper Yafai Chiefs, and other Chiefs in the Protectorate' [159r] (317/376)
The record is made up of 1 file (188 folios). It was created in 14 Feb 1929-1 Aug 1939. It was written in English. 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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* Annexure 1.
f Annexure 2.
5
Stay in Aden and Visit to Lahej.
10 . The intervening days were fully occupied in a careful study
of the records in the
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
Office at Aden and in compre
hensive discussions with the Resident, Major-General J. H. K.
Stewart, C.B., D.S.O., who had communicated to me on my
arrival the instructions contained in your telegram to him of
lj^24th December, 1925,* and your despatch of the 4th Sep-
te 4 .oer, 1924. f I was also given the opportunity of visiting Sir
Abdul-Karim ibn Fadhl, K.C.I.E., Sultan of the Abdali at
Lahej, where I also met Nasr ibn Shaif Saif, the Amir of Dhala,
whose territories though lying within the .limits of the Protec
torate had been occupied and taken under direct administration
by the Imam.
Departure from Aden, and Composition of Mission.
11 . The Mission sailed from Aden in R.I.M.S. “ Cornwallis ”
on the evening of the 12th January, as arranged, and consisted
of the following persons: —
Sir Gilbert Clayton, Head of the Mission.
Mr. George Antonius, Secretary to the Mission.
Lieut.-Colonel M. C. Lake, LA., Adviser on Local Affairs.
Lieut.-Colonel M. S. Irani, I.M.S., Medical Officer.
Mr. R. V. Kaikini, Clerk and Stenographer;
Sheikh Muhammad Salim (lent by the Aden
Residency
An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India.
),
Interpreter;
Sheikh Yislam Ba-Ruwais, Transport Officer; and
four servants and orderlies.
Kamaran.
12 . After calling at Perim we arrived on the 14th January at
Kamaran, where I remained till the 16th January while the
“ Cornwallis ” was visiting the light-houses at Jebel Tier, Centre
Peak and Abu Ail. This arrangement afforded me an oppor
tunity of visiting the Quarantine Station and harbour and of
making a tour round the Island. H.M.S. “ Endeavour ” (Com
mander Geary Hill, R.N.) was at anchor in the harbour in con
nection with hydrographical survey work at Kamaran and in
the vicinity.
Arrival at Hodeida.
13. We left Kamaran at 5 p.m. on the 16th January and arrived
at Hodeida at 7 a.m. on the 17th January. The British Political
Clerk, Hasan Kanjuni, came on board to meet me and was fol
lowed by representatives of the Kaid (Military Commander) of
the district and of the ‘Amil (Local Governor) of Hodeida. On
disembarking I proceeded to the house which serves as Office of
the Political Clerk and then paid a formal call at the local
Government Office, where the Mission was received very cor
dially by the Kaid and the ‘Amil.
Journey to San‘a.
14. The transport animals and an escort of an officer and 44
N.C.O’s and men of the Yemen Army being in readiness, our
baggage and servants were sent off to Bajil (the first stage on
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The file contains papers regarding proposals to alter the basis of treaty relationships with tribes in the Aden Protectorate, comprising annotated treaty drafts, plus correspondence between the Foreign Office, the Colonial 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. Political Department, the Aden Resident (later Chief Commissioner, then Governor), and the Air Ministry.
The correspondence primarily concerns a proposal by the Resident (Sir Stewart Symes) to replace existing individual tribal treaties with a single instrument, and to cease payments of fixed stipends for general service in favour of payments for services rendered. The proposed change in policy was later abandoned by the Chief Commissioner, Sir Bernard Reilly.
The correspondence also concerns Symes's conference at Lahej, and the pact with the Lahej and other Chiefs to defend against Yemeni incursion into the Aden Protectorate; the deteriorating relationship between the Aden Protectorate and the Imam of San'a; and the suggestion by the Resident that a Chiefs' council should be established along the lines of the tribal councils in Baluchistan, to act as the central authority for the settlement of tribal affairs.
The papers dated 1939 concern the Tripartite Agreement with the Qu'ayti [Qu'ayṭī] and Kathiri Sultans in the Aden Protectorate; the treaty between the British Government and Sultan Salih bin Ghalib Al Qu'ayti [Ṣāliḥ bin Ghālib Al Qu'ayṭī], Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla; and the reconstituted Qu'ayti-Kathari Agreement of 1918.
A copy of the Report by Sir Gilbert Clayton on his Mission to the Imam of San'a (Colonial Office, 1926) is enclosed at folios 156-187.
The following treaty and agreement drafts are found within the file:
- the agreement [the Lahej Pact] between the Chiefs of tribes and districts within the Aden Protectorate made 6 April 1929 in the presence of the Resident and Commander-in-Chief, ff 119-120;
- a draft treaty between the Chiefs of Upper Yafa and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, agreeing to adhere to the purposes of the Lahej Pact of 6 April 1929, ff 84-85, 64-65, and 46;
- a draft agreement reconstituting the Qu'ayti-Kathiri Agreement of 1918, between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, His Highness the Qu'ayti Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla, and the Kathiri Sultan of Seiyun, on behalf of the Sultans of the Family of 'Abdulla al Kathiri, dated 26 February 1939, ff 19-23;
- a draft treaty between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, and Sultan Ja'far bin Mansur al Kathiri, Sultan of Seiyun, dated 2 March 1939, ff 17-18;
- a draft treaty between His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, and Sultan Salih bin Ghalib al Qu'ayti, Sultan of Shihr and Mukalla, dated 13 August 1937, ff 3-6.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the end of the correspondence (folio one).
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- 1 file (188 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the folder.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 188; 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. An additional foliation sequence is also present in parallel between ff 15-188; these numbers are also written in pencil and circled, but have been superseded and therefore crossed out. A typescript pagination sequence is present in parallel between ff 156-87.
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- Coll 1/12 'Policy in the Protectorate: treaty with the Upper Yafai Chiefs, and other Chiefs in the Protectorate'
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- front, front-i, 2r:2v, 7r:16v, 24r:45v, 47r:63v, 66r:83v, 87r:118v, 121r:187v, back-i, back
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