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File 600/1905 Pt 2 'Aden Hinterland: Future Policy' [‎320r] (127/226)

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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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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. , London,
J4- 1906.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor
General of India in Council.
Fiews of His Majesty's Govern
ment on the main questions arising
in connection with the tribes of the
Aden Protectorate.
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My Lord,
The appointment of a new Resident at Aden
seems to be a proper occasion for laying before
Your Excellency the views of His Majesty’s^Q-overn-
ment on the main questions arising in connection
with the tribes of the Aden hinterland. The
correspondence also addressed to the Government
of India by the Governor of Bombay in Council,
which, by your instructions, His Excellency has
forwarded to me under date 12th March 1906,
appears to invite an immediate consideration of
the principles that it would now he most politic to
follow in that region.
2. It appears to be supposed by some that
the process of delimitation, satisfactorily carried
out in concert with the Turkish Government
in the Aden hinterland and establishing a
definite frontier between the territories of the
Sultan and certain of the tribes, brought with
it an extension of the responsibilities and obli
gations of Great Britain. Lord Lansdowne,
however, who was actively concerned in the
transaction, explicitly rejected that construction
of what had taken place. In the House of Lords
on 30th March 1903, replying to a question
whether the demarcation arranged with Turkey
had enlarged the British sphere of influence, he
said : “ With regard to the responsibility for these
“ territories, I do not see why what has taken place
“ should make any difference in these responsi-
“ bilities. We have never desired to interfere
“ with the interna] and domestic affairs of the
“ tribes. On the other hand, we have throughout
“ made it perfectly plain that we should not
“ tolerate the interference of any other Power with
“ them.” In this interpretation His Majesty’s
present advisers in the fullest sense concur. The
security and strength of Aden as one of the main
posts and fortresses that guard the line between
England and India, must always be a standing
object in national policy. That strength will
obviously be impaired and not augmented by
quarrels with the tribes, by intervention in their
disputes, by multiplication of formal agreements
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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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