File 600/1905 Pt 1 'Aden Hinterland: Treaty with Dthala' [428v] (118/174)
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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, fn discharge our increased responsibility m the future. _ Should
success Will be attained at a less cost in the long run than rs involved
1 . t 8 ^ C Ve“S’s proposals, and certainly With the gain of avoiding any
m the Kesiaeru s p i interference with the internal inde*
imputation of » P re “^ : e g h )d it fai i it will be open to Government to have
pendence “^sGll grtter confidence to the policy now recommended by the
recourse w^h still & Governor in Council considers that there is an
Resident. His between stationing an Assistant in the hinter-
essential diilerence o P . . ^ Resident an Assistant with head-quarters in
1»;* l“SXt,Sv2Sufc“Atoil.=lf, »,4 f ~ W.O.V.1 i, tb,
Aden, but With aoso y ^ find reason to sead himi For such
hinterland whenever qualifications and he might be allowed, as sug-
duties Mr. Bury has ne . l .t!,,.,. ro uml him two or three efficient native
gested by Mr- ^ ^^^^^Jgggi^Sahh'^of'uie Azraki, who also would he con-
assistants ot th ® tyP 6 the {ree movement in the hinterland of such emis-
stantly on the move. treaties and such a staff should constitute all
saries there is ^“ 'EeiLnt oTght to need in order to satisfy himself periodi-
th p"areitact, and that there is no more than the
cally that the boundary P m „n v expected soin^ on along it, and
amount of intrigue wh,ch is to b “^ la ^de "by "the Turkf against
aiso in order to verify the facts ot any Go P emment The essential difference
I members «*f“^ lbi ; dvoc atedby the Resident and that submitted by this
between the P 0 / 10 /“ lv p ^ woul d keep the whole British organisation
Government is that His Excellency wom^ v ^ ^ Goyemment o£ India
centred m ^ d ® n ar J ^pursue this attempt to maintnin the policy
desire no effort should ^ s P« ed “ P r witll reasonable chances of success, it
of tnhal responsibility and to provmc K ^ a treatment of tUe Chiefs
controlling those for whose behaviour they are held answerable.
4. The Resident has. as deisred submitted an estimate of the extra
expense involved in !»'""« X ..fSt lb".'™ ..“ir i, estsllLd
fit
"rtSfi'SIl £p“ W„5 m C depri sol Government ot ft.
of an officer who would have been m every way su ita e . >
case this policy should he decided on, it "' l11 , ^ n s ““! d 1 {^utv L the local
officer can hare received the local training !,nd a !?2 h dut „ y Forthe post
Arabic which will make him thoroughly efficient for such duty. P
of Assistant, such as His Excellency would prefer, Mn
indicated, in every way qualified, but he should 1)6 g 1 e .
higher emoluments and definite prospects of assured seme .
'
G. C. Press, Simla.-No. 202 F. D.—JB-i-Oi.- 72,—C. P.
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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:
- Major-General Pelham James Maitland (later Henry Macan Mason), 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;
- Colonel R A Wahab, Aden Boundary Commissioner;
- Government of India, Foreign Department;
- 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. , Political Department;
- 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;
- Major W Merewether, Political Officer at Dthala.
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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