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File 600/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Dthala' [‎395r] (51/174)

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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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jProw Viceroy, VIth September 1904.
{Repeated to Bombay.)
■porei"ii Secret. Please refer to our Secret External Despatch of 21st July
1Q04 Bombay Government now report Amir of Dthali is much agitated over
idea of our withdrawing from Bthali, and is opening relations with lurkey
to secure refuge in that event. They urge that early assurances should be
given that we have no intention of leaving place, at any rate for some con
siderable time, and they believe that this assurance will quiet the Amir, an
have pacifying effect on the whole countryside, which is at present uncertain
as to our real intentions. A withdrawal, they think, would be disastious to
oui prestige and seriously militate against our interests for many years to
come. Wh concur in flies© views.

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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‘].

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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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