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File 600/1905 Pt 2 'Aden Hinterland: Future Policy' [323v] (134/226)
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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3. If, as His Majesty’s Go
decided, the main purpose of the
tation is achieved by the fixing of
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I submit to your Excellency the f
sitions as well fitted to carry on
So far as the Turkish frontier is <
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the highest degree desirable
advances -should not be exaggerate!
protest would naturally be by wa
r a, 0/ J Constantinople. ^Round Aden a:
narrow limits of the protectorate
he drawn within which internal dis1
naturally call for watchfulness,
violence on British territory woi
be punished promptly. Beyond
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might lead us into military or pol:
ments, without the express sai
Government nf lTniia. A railway
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4. The ret e ntion of ajolitio
^provisional. In Si
my Predecessor assented to the j
Government of India “ as a temporc
“ retain a British officer and a small
“ at Dthala.” This assent he limited to one year,
requesting that after the expiry of that time he
should be informed as to the existence of “ any
“ real necessity for maintaining the official and his
“ escort at Dthala.” In November 1905, however,
he acce pted the reasons of the Government of
India lor making it permanent.^ For my own
part I can discover no further evidence of this
necessity. If the Political Officer be withdrawn,
there can he no advantage, and there are very
obvious disadvantages, in maintaining the garrison
of 883 men now stationed at Dthaty. The reasons
that were believed to demand the garrison in 1904
would seem now to have lost their force.
5. The despatch of postal runners or agents of
the British Government into the interior is to be
as much as possible avoided. Any project for
disarming the tribes in the nine centres should be
dismissed from serious consideration. Punitive
expeditions for offences committed during the
demarcation, and not punished then and there, are
now out of the question. No demonstration along
the demarcated frontiei/seems to be needed.,—
6. I trust that these propositions may com
mend themselves to your Excellency, either as
matter for instructions to the Resident whom
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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:
- Major-General Ernest de Brath, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. at Aden;
- Government of India, Simla;
- Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. ;
- 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;
- Foreign Office, London.
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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- File 600/1905 Pt 2 'Aden Hinterland: Future Policy'
- Pages
- 257r:369v
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