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File 600/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Dthala' [‎386r] (33/174)

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The record is made up of 1 item (86 folios). It was created in Feb 1904-Apr 1905. It was written in English and French. 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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No. 4195, dated Bombay Castle, tbe 5 tli July 1905.
From The Hon’ble Mr. S. W Edgerlet, C.I.E., Chief Secretary to the Gov
ernment of Bombay, Political Department.
To-The Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign Department.
I am directed to mvite a reference to my letter 31 ' No. 3861, dated tbe 20th
* Pro. No. 271 in Secret E., September
Noa. 274-279.
1905,
Memorandum, dated the let April 1905, from
Captain H. F. Jacob, Political Officer, D’thala, with
accompaniment.
Letter No. 206, dated 22nd May 1905, from tbe
Political Officer, D’thala.
June 1906, on the subject of locating a
Political Officer at D’thala, Aden Hinter
land, and to forward, herewith, the mar
ginally noted correspondence on the pro
posal to open tentatively a temporary dis
pensary and hospital for the treatment of
■p 9 o 9 _ „ Arab patients at D’thala, at a cost of
w ^ P eror Rs -. 928 for a period of four months. The proposal is
intended to be purely experimental and, if it is found that the dispensary is
poorly attended, it will be discontinued. F *
2. His Excellency the Governor in Council, as reported in my letter above
quoted, considers that the establishment of a hospital and dispensary for the
treatment of all who may come in to the head-quarters of the Political Officer
at D thala is highly desirable. Should the Government of India consider that
the present proposals are an adequate commencement of such a scheme, I am
also to request that sanction may be accorded to the payment of £.30 for the
instruments which, it is here reported, have been privately purchased by Captain
II. E. Jacob, the Political Officer at D thala, for his suggested dispensary.
Memorandum on a Civil Dispensary proposed tentatively for D'thala-Aden
Hinterland.
The Political Officer at D thala has been directed to give moral support to
the Amir of D thala and to keep in touch with the Upper Xafa country in view
to a possible demarcation in that direction.
To that end we employ the following means
I.—Personal intercourse-, not necessarily with the Chiefs or recognized
heads of tribes and sections only, but with the tribesmen them
selves, both at D’thala head-quarters, but more especially in their
own country. The importance of the personal factor cannot be
exaggerated.
II.—Discriminate distribution of presents in cash and kind. This a^ain
is done less at head-quarters than in the districts where we ensure
the monies reaching the many and deserving cases. The tribesmen
are democrats pure and simple, and have all a hand in the direction
of their affairs, the Sheikh or Akil being often times a mere figure
head who holds his position at the will of his tribesmen. The with
holding of gifts at head-quarters.
{a) Ensures an entrance into the different villages the starting point,
whence to secure the tribal confidence.
(b) Terminates the jealousies formerly existing between a Sheikh and his
tribesmen where the former pocketed the money, and the latter
looked on.
In dealing with Bedouins and wild tribes money awards are imperative.
III.— Medical treatment. —The other means have their relative importance,
but I would specially in this memorandum labour this means of reach
ing the people D’thala itself presents an object-lesson on the necessity
of some institution to cope with the distress chronic in these parts.
With the scarcity now prevalent in Yemen we have an inroad of
starvelings—men, women and children from Turkish limits. I do
not pretend they are chiefly sick people. Many of them are not.

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Part 1 of the file relates to the 1905 revision of the treaty with Shaif bin Sef bin Abdul Hadi bin Hasan [Shā’if ibn Sayf al-‘Amirī], Amir of Dthala (also sometimes written Dthali) [al-Ḍāli‘].

The correspondents include:

The correspondence discusses a number of matters integral to the new treaty, including:

  • the deployment of a permanent Political Officer in Dthala;
  • the need for an Arab levy to patrol the frontier with Ottoman Turkish territory;
  • increasing the Amir's stipend and granting him a gun salute;
  • relations between the Amir and the Kotaibi tribe.

Folio 382 is the revised treaty, signed 28 November 1905 (ratified 8 February 1905).

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