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Coll 1/12 'Policy in the Protectorate: treaty with the Upper Yafai Chiefs, and other Chiefs in the Protectorate' [163v] (326/376)
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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ing, but hoped that I should realise his position and explain his
point of view fully to His Majesty’s Government. He empha
sised his desire to come to a friendly understanding with His
Majesty’s Government and expressed the hope that our failure
to reach an agreement now would not prevent the desired object
from being attained in the future. I replied that our meeting
had at least resulted in a frank interchange of views which Would
serve to clarify the situation and prevent future misconceptii^*
and took my leave in an atmosphere of protestations of mutifal
friendship and regard.
Departure from San‘a and Return to Aden.
37. On the following day I paid my farewell visit to the Imam,
which was marked by a considerable amount of ceremony and
every indication of a desire to pay all possible honour to a repre
sentative of His Majesty’s Government. The street leading to
the palace was lined on either side by troops with bands and
colours, and inside the gates a guard of honour was drawn up.
The Imam was exceedingly friendly and reiterated his desire for
friendly relations with Great Britain, expressing the hope that
the explanations which I was’now in a position to give to His
Majesty’s Government would lead to eventual agreement. I
assured His Highness that, while unable to say what attitude His
Majesty’s Government would take up, 1 should not fail to put
his point of view before them; at the same time, I urged him to
refrain from further encroachment and, if possible, to withdraw
at least from those districts in which he had not established a
regular administration, as I was convinced that proof of a con
ciliatory disposition on his part would tend to relieve the situa
tion which had been produced by our failure to come to an agree
ment.
38. On the afternoon of the 21st February the Mission left
San‘a ana returned to Aden by the land route via Dhamar, Ibb
and Mawia. The Imam furnished an escort of eight mounted
men and twenty-five infantry, who accompanied us as far as the
frontier of the Protectorate, where we were met by a detachment
of the Aden troop under the command of Major T. M. Carpen-
dale. The Mission reached Aden on the afternoon of the 3rd
March.
39. Throughout the return journey the Mission was received
with even more respect and consideration than on the march from
Plodeida to San‘a. At every town—indeed at nearly every village
—we were met by guards of honour, parades of troops and large
crowds of the local population. It was evident that the Imam
had issued special orders to the effect that every possible honour
should be paid to us, and I was informed on several occasions
that no foreigner had ever been given such a reception in the
Yaman.
40. I remained in Aden for a week, which was occupied in
liquidating the affairs of the Mission and in explaining fully the
situation to the Resident, and embarked on the 10th March in
the P. & O. s.s. “ Maloja ” for Marseilles, arriving in London
on the evening of Saturday, the 20th March.
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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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