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File 869/1904 Pt 3 'Arms traffic: Red Sea, Africa and Aden' [‎212r] (428/444)

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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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full power trial rnd "Por" returned to Perbera with the
Connie^ioner end Left on the 15th December for Aden
carrying out a full power trial on the way #
Flawing completed with coal "Pox 11 in proceeding
to has Choral on 20th December with the nails, her boats*
crows win m relieved and she will return to Berber* for
Christmas in readiness to assist the disemb arkation of the
300 K.A*R*s from %assolend.
0 # Should it be found that the Flu 11 ah has proceeded
3.^. into the Beghari country, there will he no necessity
to Veep a ship at Berbers and ,fG, ox ,! will proceed to Las
Khorai and w Proserpine w will he free to cruise off the
coast and thereby much increase the efficiency of the
blockade.
10. The blockade is having e most excellent effect on
the Somali tribes* the ^araangli especially have never
really recognised the Sirker as a power in the land and only
occasionally see a representative from the Government when
e «kHi of war visits the const; mm they find that we are >
>'blc to double the price of ;train end dates and of course \
recognise that at any moment all trade can he stopped and
all dhows seized.
11. ^he Mullah has apparently gone off and left then
at our mercy after making use of them anti t think it will b€ j
a long time before they again run after false gods.
.12. Aa regards the arms traffic* nothing has been
landed on our coast except in one case which occurred on
the night, of fsrd Dec. when a two ton dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. from Makalleh got
in about two miles from one of f ha armed dhows and it is
reported that about twenty rifles were landed* this is
probably correct as a head nan of t he *'*u llah/s was in the
dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. .
IS.

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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.

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1 volume (218 folios)
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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.

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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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