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Coll 6/84 'Yemen: Attitude of Yemeni Govt. towards the Italo-Ethiopian dispute. Policy of H.M.G. in event of Italian occupation of Yemeni territory.' [347r] (693/699)
The record is made up of 1 file (348 folios). It was created in 22 Mar 1934-1 Nov 1939. 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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MOVSMEmS 0? ITALIAS YE 3 SELS IN THE RED SEA.
From: The CoonaAdifig Officer, H.M.S. PENEANGE at ADEN.
Date: 19th Jfehruary, 1934. No.0#/43.
To: The 3erdor Officer. Red Sea Sloops.
^Oopy to Stafr Officer (1), Malta,
—
Submitted with reference to Staff Officer (I)
Malta, 0.3.7/34 of 10th January, 193- and your message
1144 of 13th February, 1934, H.1.3. TliliSALGE visited
PERIM for a few hours on loth February, while conveying
the SA f NA Mission to ADEN, and the o portunity was taken
of discussing the matter with Mr. C.O. DAYEY, the
; Gk>v ernment Ajen t.
3 . Mr# Davev states that although he was informed
by the London Offices of the ^erim Coal Company that the
Italian surveying ship "AMMIRALGLIO MAGh T AGH^ ,, would visit
PERIM for coal during December, 1933, she has not yet been
in the port.
3. On 13th January, the Italian sloop "OSTIA" arrived
and embarked oil fuel'.
Mr. Javey called, and was requested by the Commanding
Officer to allow officers to land at the KIGrB LIGHT for the
pur ose of taidng a round of angles of peaks on the Arabian
coast, including, presumably, the vicinity of SHEIKH 3STD.
This permission was granted.
Jubsequently mr. Davey was informed by the Island
golioe that the officers, after makin; their^ observations
at the HIGH LIGHT, descended to the OLD LIGHT on OBSTRUCTION
POINT and there made sketches.
I
4. It is understood that these sketches were also
of the Arabian coastline, but time did not admit of this
being confirmed. H.M#3. PENMANCE will therefore call at
PERIS on her return passage from DJIBOUTI, when the
oliee officers coneemed^will be interviewed.
5. Mr. Davey was informed that "OSTIA" will c 11 for fuel
at monthly intervals until May, when she is expected to
return to ITALY,
He also gathered that "AMMIRA&IG MAONAGRI" is
engaged in survey work in the vicinity of A3SAB.
6 . In the event of further requests to land for
graphical purposes being made on any future occasion
Javey proposed that permission should
a careful watch being kept
proposed that permission should again oe granted,
(watch being kept on the movements of the
observers, and a report forwarded.
7. These proposals were discussed with and concurred
in by the Chief Commissioner, ADEN, in view of the following
facts -
(a) Details of PEEIM island and the neighbouring Arabian
coast are already snown in considerable JU^ail on Admiralty
chart Ho .3592 "xERIM Island and DAB-EL-MAN DEB Small Strait."
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This file relates to Italian activities in the Middle East, particularly in the Yemen. The correspondence includes discussion of the following:
- British policy in the event of the Italians occupying Sheikh Said [Ra’s Shaykh Sa‘īd], or any other part of the Yemen.
- The Yemen's position in the Italo-Abyssinian conflict [Italo-Ethiopian War].
- Relations between Ethiopia and the Yemen.
- Italian activities in the Yemen.
- British suspicions regarding Italian activities in the Yemen.
- Future British policy in the Yemen.
- Internal affairs in the Yemen.
- Anglo-Italian relations in the Middle East, and the likelihood of Italy violating the Rome Understanding of 1927.
- Ibn Saud's [‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] view on Italian activity in the region.
- The visits of Italian destroyers to Kamaran Island in March 1937 and January 1938.
- British and French concerns that Italy, following its denunciation of the Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, seeks possession of the Island of Doumeira [Dumēra Desēt, Red Sea, also spelled Dumeira in the file], currently under French control.
The file features the following principal correspondents: His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan, succeeded by Sir Reader William Bullard); 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 (Sir Bernard Rawdon Reilly); the Governor of Aden (Reilly again); the High Commissioner, Cairo (Sir Miles Lampson); His Majesty's Ambassador in Cairo (Lampson again); His Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires, Alexandria (John Cecil Sterndale Bennett); His Majesty's Ambassador in Paris (Eric Phipps); His Majesty's Ambassador in Rome (Eric Drummond); the British Consul General, Jibuti [Djibouti] (Herbert George Jakins); the British Naval Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station (Vice-Admiral Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay); the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Anthony Eden); the Secretary of State for the Colonies (James Henry Thomas, succeeded by William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore); officials of the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office, and the Air Ministry.
In addition to correspondence, the file includes the following: copies of extracts from Aden political intelligence summaries; copies of the minutes of meetings of the Committee of Imperial Defence's Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East, dated 26 November 1935, 14 December 1936, and 8 June 1937 respectively; a copy of a translation of a treaty of friendship and commerce between the Ethiopian and Yemeni governments, which was ratified on 21 September 1935.
The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence (folios 2).
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- 1 file (348 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 349; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- Coll 6/84 'Yemen: Attitude of Yemeni Govt. towards the Italo-Ethiopian dispute. Policy of H.M.G. in event of Italian occupation of Yemeni territory.'
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- front, front-i, 2r:128v, 132r:258v, 263r:263v, 265r:281v, 284r:301v, 303r:338v, 340r:343v, 345r:349v, back
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