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File 600/1905 Pt 2 'Aden Hinterland: Future Policy' [367r] (221/226)
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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which the Ottoman Government claimed as part
of their district of Rada, but they were con
sidered hy His Majesty’s Government, on satis
factory
An East India Company trading post.
evidence, to he connected with the
Yaffai, and thus to fall within the British
Protectorate.
On the 23rd September Sir N. O’Conor
reported that, at a farewell audience before he
left Constanticople, the Sultan “opened the
conversation hy assuring me that he would give
his formal consent to the Aden frontier delimita
tion next day.” This undertaking, however, was
not observed.
On the 25th October Lord Lansdowne found it
necessary to instruct Mr. Townley to inform the
Porte that His Majesty’s Goverument proposed
to send a ship of war to the coast to watch over
British interests, and the Admiralty gave orders
to the Commander-in-chief on the East Indies
Station to send a ship.
On the 28th October Mr. Townley reported
that the Minister for Foreign Affairs begged that
the dispatch of the ship might he delayed, and
promised an answer hy the 3rd November.
On the 4th November Mr. Townley telegraphed
that the Sultan’s reply had been handed to him
in the shape of a telegram to the Turkish Ambas
sador for communication to Lord Lansdowne,
hut that, having regard to the terms, he had
refused to act on it. On the same day the
Turkish Ambassador presented the reply to Lord
Lansdowne. It spoke of the line proposed for
the Subaihi border as a “ marked encroachment,”
claimed Dabiani, Nawa, Tuban, and Rubeaten as
“belonging incontestably to the Kaza of Rada,”
and begged for a reopening of the question.
Lord Lansdowne replied by reciting the Sultan’s
promise of the 23rd September and the failure to
give effect to it. He said it was “outrageous
that at the last moment an attempt should be
made to reopen the question; ” and that the
arrangements for sending a ship of war to the
coast, which had been suspended at the Ambas
sador’s special request, would certainly now be
carried out.
The “ Proserpine ” arrived in the Red Sea on
the 6th November.
On the 30th December Mr. Townley reported
that an Irade had been issued instructing the
Turkish Commissioners to draw the boundary
outside Bab-el-Mandeb to Kudam (the Vilayet
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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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- 257r:369v
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