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File 600/1905 Pt 2 'Aden Hinterland: Future Policy' [‎275r] (37/226)

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The record is made up of 1 item (113 folios). It was created in 11 Dec 1905-5 Oct 1906. 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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says ‘Hhe general hea 1 ^ of the civil population at Tawahi and Maala is
reported to have been good.” The European General Hospital’s Sure
were for daily average attendance :— 1 o
Sick.
In patients
Out-door patients
1904-05.
1903-04.
1901-02.
10-3
lo-5
Percentage not given,
but the number of
39-1
40-05
patients 3,182 ex
ceeded that of 3,12(1
in 1904-0o.
on me in
looking over the
reports, is that the
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Europeans ratlier healthier at Aden last year than in previous years.
Hie admissions of* natives into hospital considering the strength, 670 men,
were the highest for years, while there were only 906 cases of Europeans
admitted out ot a strength of 1,367. The European death-rate was higher
but not so high as in 1898. These figures, however, require scrutiny, as
some deaths may be due to active service; hut, after all, compared with
the so-calleu healthy station of Poona, the death-rate at Aden calls for no
special remark. W ith a reduction of the Aden garrison to its former
strength an improvement should occur.
ii. As regards the training of troops at Aden, no complaints used
to be made, since the country between the rock and Sheikh Othman is
perfectly flat. If the garrison were reduced to its former numbers, which
were considered sufficient for the fortress, there should be no difficulty in
training them. This however is a military question.
iii. As regards the Naval policy of the Admiralty and the need for
communication with the interior, the argument seems almost desperate.
But at any rate if we were at peace with Turkey there would be no need
for a garrison at D’thala, and if we were at war a thousand men there would
not secure us the supplies needed.
iv. As to the arms traffic, it is certain that a garrison at D’thala can
have no manner of influence upon the trade considering the long line of
frontier and the Turkish landing places at Sheikh Said and north of it.
Experience has proved that we cannot check the arms traffic without an
honest international agreement, and that we can secure neither in the Persian
Gulf nor in the Bed Sea.
IV.
4. There remains the question of the Sultan of Abdali’s railway. Onr
hands have been somewhat forced in this. The Abdali Sultan is very poor,
and could never have thought of a railway unless it had been suggested to
him. It is, however, certain that unless we allow it to run to the port of
Aden no one will dream of making it. We have nothing to gain and much
to lose by giving such a permission. If ever we were obliged to defend Aden
in a war in which Turkey was against us, the railway might possibly even
help our enemies. The argument of trade is surely a weak one. The
5. 26, A 2

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Part 2 of the file relates to future policy questions, in particular Britain's presence in the Dthala [al-Ḍāli‘] (sometimes written as Dthali) region.

The correspondents include:

The correspondence discusses several matters relating to British policy in the Aden hinterland, including:

  • the murder of a postal runner near Sheikh Othman;
  • the deployment of a Political Officer at Dthala;
  • the withdrawal of all British troops and officers from Dthala;
  • arms traffic in the hinterland;
  • an extension of the railway into the hinterland.

The discussion is framed by the wider imperial policy of non-interference.

Folio 369 is a map entitled 'The Tribes and New Boundary of the Aden Protectorate'.

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