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File 869/1904 Pt 1 'Arms Traffic: - Red Sea, Africa & Aden' [59r] (122/580)
The record is made up of 1 volume (286 folios). It was created in 2 Jul 1902-22 Dec 1906. 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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5. It was suggested to Dr. Ormieres that, with a view to further checking the
illicit traffic in arms, it was desirable that the different authorities concerned should act
in concert, and that the various Rules and Regulations issued by them should be as ar
as possible, similar in effect and general principle. General bwayne handed him a
copy of the “ Somaliland Fire-arms Regulations,” dated the 2 nd September, and a
comparison of this with the Regulations issued at Jibuti was invited. In icp y,
Dr. Ormieres stated that the orders which he received from time to time irom ins
Government were of a confidential nature. Certain Rules had, however, been pu >-
lished, and he retired for a few minutes into his Secretariat to get t icse.
6 . Upon his return from his office he was evidently less inclined to b e con -
nmnicative than before. He stated that, beyond a general prohAition of the lUicrt
export of arms, there were no particular Rules on the subject, except such as
embodied in the ordinary Police Rules of the Settlement or m hnculars issued o n
various points, such as that already referred to regarding the mport of component
parts of arms. Even that order, he said, was not in print, and had been sent to his
home Government for confirmation. It became apparent that Dr. Ormieres did not hi
himself in a position to produce any regular body of Rules or Regiilations for compaiii
with those of the British Somaliland Protectorate, and that he was either unable
unwilling to furnish any further information on the subject. ,
7 . in turning the conversation, he referred to his recent experiences as an official
in the French Congo, where it transpired that the nature of the Admimstiation was o
a little affected hy commercial requirements. From this it might ^e pdersto°d that
the Administration of Jibuti was perhaps somewhat similarly situated and that ^
commercial interests of the local colonists were a not unimportant faetoi
situation.^ ^ tQ Obokh) Dr Ormieres stated that native
wprp not mider the necessity of having their papers vised at that Foit Clearances, ne
Td! were only granted there to vessels to which it was inconvenient to proceed to
T.'PntJ nr to which it was inconvenient to touch at Oboim. _ , ^
9 ’ D r Ormieres was informed of the arrangements existing at Aden under w jm
native craft leavino- that port for British Somaliland were hound over to first call a
certain prescribed "ports on the coast before proceeding elsewhere, and it was suggestec
m arms now ta ung p ace te was clearly animated by friendly motives,
but eI tlie^ interStT oUSie^oral^ colonists were evidently predominant, and he was
undoubtedly reminded of this fact in the course of the few minutes during wine 1 le
had ht Ig^in broached^he sul^ect to General Swayne and, whilst
S3S&2 S 3 Eci ™..r •» .void —i..in« to
I.»; -v *'» Tsrg Ks'jfSE.
& Acting First Assistant Resident, Aden.
Aden, January 6 , 1906,,
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This volume is the first 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 several correspondents include 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, 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 and 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. Included in the correspondence between officials are: a petition from the people of Zeyla [Zeila] to the Deputy Commissioner of British Somaliland in 1905, representations made by British Indian merchants 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 1903, a witness statement made by an Arab boat captain to the Harbour Police at Aden in 1905, and an arms traffic intelligence report received from a Reuter’s agent in about 1903. There are a few nineteenth century enclosures to the correspondence between officials, including two letters written in 1891, from Ras Makunan [Makonnen] the Governor of Harrar [Harar, Ethiopia], 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. and Consul for the Somali Coast.
The volume contains a small amount of correspondence in French, in the form of an exchange of notes between the French Minister and the British and Italian Ambassadors in Paris and London, 1905-1906, as well as a copy in French of the Arms Traffic Agreement between France, Italy and Great Britain that was signed in London on 13 December 1906. The diplomatic correspondence also includes an English translation of a document entitled ‘Instructions for the Suppression of the Traffic in Arms in Somaliland’, compiled in about 1904 by the Italian Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and the Italian Minister of Marine.
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 (286 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.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 288; 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. Two additional foliation sequences are also present in parallel between ff 67-85, and ff 97-169; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- File 869/1904 Pt 1 'Arms Traffic: - Red Sea, Africa & Aden'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:9v, 11r:20v, 24r:36v, 39r:44v, 45v:48v, 50r:50v, 51v:57v, 58v:61v, 62v:67v, 69r:177v, 178v:179v, 185r:186v, 187v:189r, 190r:203v, 206r:230v, 232r:245v, 247r:252v, 258r:268r, 269v:273r, 275r:276v, 277v:285v, 287r:287v, back-i
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