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Coll 1/12 'Policy in the Protectorate: treaty with the Upper Yafai Chiefs, and other Chiefs in the Protectorate' [184r] (367/376)
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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number of spheres of action in which the Imam would be free
to do as he liked, and the second stating that Great Britain would
undertake to assist the Imam in the matter of the repair of the
submarine cable between Sheikh Sa'id and Perim. After some
discussion the Imam agreed to leave out both these articles, as
I pointed out to him that the first one was unnecessary and
^^/ould only make the Treaty cumbrous and overloaded, while
the second one was a matter which could more suitably be
arranged by correspondence between the two Governments.
Fifteenth Meeting.
43. The fifteenth meeting was held at the Palace at 9 a.m. on
Monday, the 15th February, the attendance being as usual. The
previous evening I had received a complete draft treaty from the
Imam, which purported to embody all the points on which agree
ment had been arrived at up to date, not only in the course of
my meetings with His Highness but also during the lengthy dis
cussions which Mr. Antonius had carried out with the Imam’s
representatives. On studying this draft I had discovered that
it was entirely unacceptable. No note had been taken whatso
ever of many important points on which agreement had been
arrived at, and the draft as a whole was scarcely different to that
which had been submitted previously and which had been held to
be entirely unacceptable and not susceptible even of discussion.
I decided, however, to ignore this draft altogether and to carry
on discussions from the point at which we had left off at the
previous meeting.
44. This course of action proved successful in that the new
draft did not come directly under discussion throughout the
meeting. We continued the discussion of the draft of Article 4,
on which no agreement had been arrived at on the previous day,
and after some argument and the submission by the Imam him
self of various formulae in an endeavour to meet both points of
view, we eventually reached a stage at which I considered that
it would be possible for me to put up a final draft representing
my last word in the matter. I had taken the opportunity during
the conversation of making it quite clear to the Imam that I
could not admit any wording which would throw doubt on, or
in any way weaken, ihe position of His Majesty s Government
in regard to the Aden Protectorate; I had gone as far as to
agree to a reservation of the question of His Highness’s claims
for future discussion without prejudice to the standpoint of eithei
party but I could not agree to any wording which would cast
the slightest doubt on the present position of Great Britain. ^ Tht
Imam again wished to insert the clause emphasising in detail the
independence of the Yemen, and I informed him that, though I
did not consider it in itself objectionable, it appeared to me
awkward and superfluous.
45 The Imam then requested that a clause should be inserted
in the Treaty by which His Majesty’s Government would under
take to punish, and exact due reparation from, tribes who com
mitted aggression into his territory from the Aden side of the
boundary. He urged that if he was precluded from retaliation
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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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