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File 869/1904 Pt 2 'Arms Traffic: - Red Sea, Africa and Aden' [‎77r] (162/540)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (266 folios). It was created in 29 Oct 1902-23 Dec 1908. 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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No. 4 of 1903.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA.
FOREIGN DEPARTMENT.
SECRET.
External.
To
* The Right Hon’ble JOHN MORLEY, O.M.,
Mis Majesty’s Secretary of State jor India.
Fort William, the 2nd January 1908.
Sir,
We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Secret despatch
No. 28, dated the 6th September 1907, in which you request us to take such
steps as may be practicable to ensure a more rigorous and constant vigilance
being observed by the British authorities on the Arabian Coast in the neighbour
hood of Aden, in regard to the arms traffic.
2. On receipt of a copy of your despatch the Resident at Aden sent* a
Secret Agent to Mokalla to ascertain
* ^enclosure No. 15. the extent of the traffic in arms carried
on there. From his report it appears that the Governor of Mokalla exercises a
fairly effective control over the traffic, and that no secret importations are
allowed. The Resident further inti-
+ Ibld ‘ mated,f on the 28th September, that he
had requested the Fadthli Sultan to check the traffic on his coast and to confis
cate and send in any arms that might be discovered passing through his ports.
The Sultan promised to do so.
3. The Resident has, however, given it as his opinion that no measures
will prove effective on the west coast, which fail to include the establishment
of posts and patrols at the ports of Imran, Khor Umeira, and Ras-al-Arah. He
recommends the conclusion of agreements with all the Chiefs of the east coast
on the lines of those made by Colonel Kemball in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. in 1902, and
considers that it will be necessary also to supply a reasonable amount of arms
to the Chiefs for their protection, and to give them a pecuniary interest in the
suppression of the traffic.
4. The Bombay Government, in commenting on these suggestions,
invite a reference to their letters Isos.
x Vide enclosures Nos i and 2 . 1804 and 1805, J dated 5th March 1906.
They assume that the measures proposed by the Resident, and also the sugges
tions for the occupation of posts are probably not consistent with the pohcy o
His Majesty’s Government, and they
§ vide enclosures Nos. 12 and 17 . therefore propose§ that in lieu of them
we should enlist the co-operation of the Sultan of Lahej with a view to
stopping the arms traffic.
5. We are unable to concur in this proposal, since we doubt the efficacy
of the Sultan’s assistance to secure the end in view. Every attemp on our
part to induce the adoption of more effective measures would P 10 ®
met by the Sultan with demands for an increased subsidy. He would represen»
that the lawlessness of the tribes required the maintenance of ever increasing
guards and patrols, and in effect, we should be paying not merely tor the

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This volume is the second 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 volume contains copies of ‘The Somaliland Registration of Vessels Regulations, 1904’ and the ‘Aden Sea-traffic in Arms Regulation, 1902’. There is substantial correspondence about amending the 1902 regulation, together with revised drafts made in 1907 and 1908. Correspondents are 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. and the Admiralty in London and the British Ambassador at Paris, 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, the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Muscat and the British Commissioner for the Somaliland Protectorate. Included in the correspondence are English translations of several letters sent and received by Sultan Ahmed Fadthl, The Abdali of Yemen (also referred to as the Abdali Sultan) in 1905 and 1907, and also by Said Faisal the Sultan of Oman in 1907.

The volume contains a small amount of correspondence in French, in the form of a letter from the Italian Consul at Aden to the First Assistant Resident at Aden in 1906 and a letter from the French Consul at Muscat to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. at Muscat in 1907. The diplomatic correspondence also includes several English translations of notes from the Italian Ambassador and the Italian Chargé d’Affaires at London, to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in 1907 and 1908.

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 (266 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 first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 264; 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. The front and back covers, along with the leading and ending flyleaves have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 145-264 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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