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File 600/1905 Pt 2 'Aden Hinterland: Future Policy' [‎278r] (43/226)

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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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and so long as our military and navy requirements
demand the presence of a garrison on this distant
portion of the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Bombay, the situation
must he faced and alleviated by other measures
than those recently employed, if in the opinion
ot your Government any special measures are
required at Aden itself for the comfort of the
jgamspn^ or for their proper training, I shall he
fi»jMied\to consider them, but JBis Majesty’s
Government are not prepared to withiraw
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4. I may notice one other argument which is
brought forward in the correspondence as a reason
for remaining in the Amiri country—namely, the
control of the arms traffic. So long as arms can
he landed on the coast, no troops that we can
employ in the interior will prevent the passage of
arms, and I am unable to agree that the Europeans
stationed at D’thala can he of any material service
in^stoppingj>tiat traffi^
5. 1 must, therefore, request that your Govern
ment, in concert with the military authorities, will
determine at once what the strength of the Aden
garrison should be, and withdraw the troops
altogether from D’thala in the course of the next
two months^
6. With regard to the discussion that has taken
place regarding a line of railway, I must request
that no sort of permission or encouragement he
given to the extension of any line into the British
territory at Aden without my express sanction, and
I desire, to be informed what steps have been taken
by the Abdali Sultan towards giving any concession
for railway enterprise in his own country. I
notice that the commerce of Aden by land has
fallen off in recent years, and I should wish to
know what estimates have been framed of the
cost of a railway in the Abdali territory and of its
probable profits.
7. Your Excellency in Council raises the
question of an alteration of the law and the
detachment of Aden from the Presidency The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of
Bombay. That question, if it is to be revived, can
better be discussed when the administration of
Aden has resumed its normal lines. The demarca
tion proceedings have apparently been misunder-
stood ; when their proper object is^rHa^otfntiosd, the
troops withdrawn to Aden, and the Political
^ / Agent 4* restored to his duties in Aden with only
7 such occasional visits to the tribal country as may
be needed, I trust that the affairs of the tribes will
settle down to the condition of comparative quiet
which they enjoyed in the past. Your Excellency,
I am aware, looks beyond these unimportant
controversies to an “ independent Arabia which will
“ have lost faith in our ability or willingness to
“ keep our promises to our friends,” but His
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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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