File 21/1911 Pt 1 'Aden Protectorate:- Italian & French recruitment of Arabs.' [143v] (80/270)
The record is made up of 1 item. It was created in 22 Mar 1905-13 Feb 1917. 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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to his name, nationality, destination, object, &c. Section 10 is important
and runs :—
“ T^o foreigner shall travel in or pass through any pait of Ihitish India
^ in which all the provisions of this Act are for the time being in force
without a license.”
The succeeding Sections, 11-19, deal with the description of such
license the conditions of its grant, the apprehension of foreigners travelling
without, or contrary to, those conditions, the procedure upon apprehension,
the removal from India of the persons appiehended, and the piohibition of
persons not being natural-born British subjects from travelling or passing
through any part of India without a license.
Sections 20-24 deal with the procedure as regards vessels on which
foreigners may be and prescribe various penalties, and Section 2d runs as
follows :—
“ The Governor-General of India in Council or the Local Government
of any part of British India in which this Act may, for the time
being, be in force, may exempt any person, or any class of persons,
either wholly or partially, or temporarily or otherwise, frorn^ all or
any of the provisions of this Act contained in any of the Sections
subsequent to Section 5 and may at any time revoke any such
exemption.”
By the resolution of the 8th August already mentioned (printed as
Appendix I.) the Government of India put in force for six months Sections
5-25 of the Act, while they at the same time exempted—
“ (a) from the provisions of Section 5 and all the subsequent Sections of
of the said Act all foreigners being Asiatics, and
“(b) from the provisions of Sections 10-19 of the said Act all non-
Asiatic foreigners not being of German or Austrian nationality.”
As the result of this, an Italian, for example, would be required to report
his arrival in India, while a Chinaman would not; a Belgian would be
enabled to travel without a license in India, while a German would not.
6. The Foreigners Ordinance, 1914.—The Foreigners Act as explained
above permitted (n) the deportation of undesirable foreigners; (b) the
registration of new arrivals; and (c) restrictions upon the journeys of
foreigners within India. But these measures by themselves were recently
held on military grounds to be insufficient. It was considered essential on
those grounds to take authority—
(1) To prohibit or regulate and restrict in such manner as may be
thought lit the entry of foreigners into, and their departure from,
British India.
(2.) To regulate or restrict in such manner as may be thought fit the
liberty of foreigners residing or being in British India.
(3) To impose an obligation upon householders, if so desired, to report
the temporary or permanent residence of foreigners within their
houses.
To effect these objects a special “ Ordinance ” (Appendix II.) was pro
mulgated by the Governor-General on the 20th August 1914, in exercise of
the power vested in him by the Indian Councils Act, 1861 (Section 23).
It will be seen on reference to it that Section 8 provides that “ the
“ Governor-General may delegate, subject to such conditions and restrictions
“ as he thinks fit, all or any of his powders under this Ordinance to any civil
“ or military authority in British India, either by name or in virtue of his
“ office”; also (Section 11) that no order made under Section 3 of the
Ordinance (“ power to prohibit or regulate entry, departure, and residence
of foreigners ”) shall be called in question in any Court.
7. Notifications under the Ordinance. —Besides the Ordinance itself we
have received copies of three Notifications by the Government of India
thereunder, Home Department, Political, Nos. 907-10, dated the 22nd August
1914 (Gazette of India, Extraordinary, of same date).
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The papers concern the recruitment by the governments of Italy and France of natives of the British protectorate of Aden for military and colonial policing purposes.
The main correspondents are the 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. , Aden; the Viceroy of India; and senior officials of the Foreign Office, the 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. , and the Government of India.
The papers cover: the recruitment by Italy of Arabs (referred to as 'Ascaris') for service as soldiers in Italian Somaliland (also referred to as the Benadir Coast), a proposal to which the British authorities had no objection, March 1905 - April 1908 (folios 210-238); the British decision to refuse permission for further recruitment by the Italians, because a state of war existed between Italy and Turkey and the recruitment was an infringement of British neutrality under the terms of the Foreign Enlistment Act 1870, September-October 1911 (folios 188-208); the reasons for the detention by the 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. , Aden of ammunition stores destined for the Governor of Benadir, November 1911 (folios 174-187); opposition from the Government of India to further recruitment by the Italians in the Aden Protectorate for service in the military or police in their African colonies, because of the effect on the Aden labour market, 1914 (folios 147-168); a French request to recruit substitutes for Arab labourers (' coolies A term used to describe labourers from a number of Asian countries, now considered derogatory. ') in Madagascar, December 1914 (folios 135-142); permission granted to the Italians to recruit 500 Arabs from the Hadramaut [Hadramawt], January - June 1915 (folios 111-134); and the granting of permission to the French to recruit colonial troops in Aden, 1917 (folios 105-110).
The papers include one letter in French from the French Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
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