File 600/1905 Pt 2 'Aden Hinterland: Future Policy' [339r] (165/226)
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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not our pro^l^y oTt’o 0 th ™ ^at they did
yet they cut op'en thl ^r^gfUicrbore . ^. nd
GoTerument; they opened and damaged letters stamned wiu/t? 6 f™* 4
Great Government; they have impudently disposed of the if It™ 1 * of , th |
cigarettes which were being sent by the postal 'runner of the Governmtnf
la ' e 0 l’ ene : ,, an<1 damaged Government letters as well as the letters of
pr vale persons They have committed the robberv and the murder of Mak’aH
t0 tbe °S n °V the Go . vernmeu t. They must have known fu 1
neff that they W( re offending against the Government. And it is clear that
no fear or respect for the Government restrained them from offending or from
their subsequent insolent treatment of the property of Government ”*
be, or course, as clear to you as it is to us.
This must
We note that this offence was committed without the consent and against
the wishes of you and the other elders of the tribe and that the action of your
} oung men dees not meet with your approval. ^
1 1“ 0u 1 r i le l te , rs o? 3 ' X 68 ’ dated the 20th Jaaa ^y 1906 ( 25 tli Lill KadaX323)
and 617, dated the 31st January 1906 (6th kill Hoja 1323), we have already
informed you t.iat you should at once restore to us not only all the robbed post
hut also the camel of the murdered postman and the saddle thereof and the
murdered man’s jambia.
You have been a long time returning to us the post, and we are not pleased
that this was not returned, as it ought to have been, at once and without
waiting for even our first messenger to arrive demanding it. When our first
messenger did arrive it should, of course, have been returned at once. We are
much displeased at your delay.
Now without any further delay return to us at once all other portions of
the post which yon may have since found in the possession of the marauders,
the camel of Maja’ali Sef, his jambia, and the saddle of his camel.
As to the saddle you say that it was given to another Haidara dm Ahmed,
the Kijai. We have, of course, written to the Rijai Sheikh about this. But
the responsibility rests on you to return to us the property robbed from our
servant by your young men.
As to the young men we have already named them to you—-
(1) Tugaish din Saleh-am-Thcltain,
(2) Ahmed din Abdulla din Awadth,
(B) Mahomed din Saleh ha Raj eh,
(4) Saleh din Abdulla ba Jahia,
(5) Hasan Saleiman, the Seyaili,
and we have already told you to arrest them and to send them to us for us to
inquire into their offence.
We have received the orders of our Great Government to repeat this
demand to you. And we write to say that the young men should be brought
to us by you at once and without any further delay and handed over to us to be
tried in our Court for the offence which they have committed.
This demand must be complied with within 10 days of the despatch of this
letter at the longest. This is a longer time than is really necessary, and it
would be well for you to comply with our demands now as soon as you possibly
can. We are already, as we have said, much displeased with your delay over
complying with the demands which we have previously sent to you.
As to what you say about the enmity between you and the Ahl-al-Ban,
that is a matter which we are inquiring into and will in due course full})
considtr before passing any orders in regard to the murder of Maja’ali Scf.
But your young men have raided our property from our servant in our limits,
and for this offence we demand that you arrest them and surrender them to us
for trial by our Court,
cois 2ul0—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:
- 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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