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File 869/1904 Pt 3 'Arms traffic: Red Sea, Africa and Aden' [28r] (60/444)
The record is made up of 1 volume (218 folios). It was created in 1909-1911. It was written in English, French and Italian. 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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bringing the total nunber of the enemy up to about 60:
I opened fire on them as they approached but was unable to
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prevent them lining the cliff, some liHle way inland,
from which positiro they were able, while themselves
remaining invisible, to open a heavy fire on us,
making most excellent shooting, wounding, first a native
( superficial wound ), secondly myself ( slightly with
a spent bullet ),' and finally signal boy Oross (ON ),
who was in the hold at the time passing up ammunition
to the 3 pdr. , the sides of the
Dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
offering no
protection: Gross was hit through both thighs, the bone
of the left thigh being fractured.
As I considered that I had no chance of
capturing either the
Dhow
A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean.
or the arms, and no object
could be gained by remaining under such a hot fire, I
decided to haul further out and wait until they tried to
remove the arms and then shell them with the 3 pdr. and
.
maxim.
Fortunately two of the native crew were able
to dive and very pluckily did so, lifting the anchor and
hauling us out until we were some 1000 yds. from the
shore.
When the enemy tried to remove the rifles, we opened
on them with the remainder of the 3 pdr., Maxim and rifle:
I cannot say what casualities were inflicted “Kjour fire,
but we were unable to prevent them removing the arms
and ammunition, which they dragged up a galley, placed on
Camels, and then made off inland with.
The action commenced at 7.45 am and lasted
until 6.30 pm, and I made sail as soon as there was
sufficient wind (about 7.30 pm) with the intention of
catching the Perim-Aden mail steamer and putting the
wounded man on board her, but this I failed to do so took
him
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This volume is the third of three successive volumes of correspondence (IOR/L/PS/10/32-34), relating to the British prohibition and suppression of arms traffic between ports in Aden, the Red Sea and the coast of East Africa. The main correspondents are ministers and officials at 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. , the Colonial Office and the Admiralty in London, as well as officials in the Government of India Foreign and Political Department and in the 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. Other notable correspondents are the Commander-in-Chief for the East Indies Station, the Commander and Senior Naval Officer for the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. Division, the Senior Naval Officer for the Aden Division, 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. and the First Assistant Resident at Aden, and the British Commissioner for the Somaliland Protectorate. The correspondence includes naval reports about the British blockade of the Warsangli coast [Somalia] in 1908 and Aden sea patrols in 1911; the ‘Agreement between the United Kingdom, France, and Italy respecting the importation of arms and ammunition into Abyssinia signed at London, December 13, 1906’ as published in 1907; ‘The Aden Arms (Sea Traffic) Regulation, 1910’; and sample forms used for the identification and regulation of dhows and other vessels in the ports of British Somaliland, Aden and Zanzibar. There is also a small amount of diplomatic correspondence, mainly from the French and Italian Ambassadors at London to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. This correspondence includes sample forms in Italian, together with revised instructions in French that were drafted jointly by the French and Italian Governments, for the enforcement of arms traffic controls in their respective protectorates of French Somaliland, Italian Somaliland and Italian Eritrea.
The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (218 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 869 (Arms Traffic: - Red Sea, Africa and Aden) consists of three volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/32-34. The volumes are divided into three parts, with each part comprising one volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 220; 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.
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- File 869/1904 Pt 3 'Arms traffic: Red Sea, Africa and Aden'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:5v, 10r:35v, 39r:46v, 48r:53v, 56r:58v, 59v:78v, 81r:90r, 92r:96v, 97v, 100r:101v, 105r:139v, 140v:144v, 147r:150v, 153r:183v, 186r:186v, 193r:194v, 196r:197v, 200r:219v, back-i
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