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File 869/1904 Pt 1 'Arms Traffic: - Red Sea, Africa & Aden' [‎122r] (248/580)

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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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SOTULILATO,
Confidential
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Sir,
I have the honour to acj^ri owl edge with thunka receipt
of the Confidential Note of the 39th October forwarded under
your endorsement N0T666O of the olfct October 1905.
This is in continuation of my confidential letter of
the 14th Octob r 1905 (No.786/c). I was charged by Colonel
Sadler to stcx> the Grandjean-''anotte party on its being known
it had entered the Esa country within our borders. I proceeded
to the vicinity of the Esa G&dabursi frontier with Camel Corps
overland, but eventually v after three weeks delay, found that
the Erenchman had had difficulties with the Esa and had been
obliged to return. I returned tc the East of Somaliland leav*
ing patrols, and instructions to a party of the 2nd King’s
African Rifles at R&rgeisa under Eeiut. Ryrne to act u on
informat) on brought in by the patrols. Eventually, v/hen the
Trenchmen cajue on again from T)jibouti they proceeded some 50
miles to what was then railhead, and then left trie train,
comin via the Gadabursi country to Eobolek, 20 miles west of
Hargeisajf Our camelry patrols had given warning and the detach-
ent 2nd K.A.R. was ready o meet and arrest the French Caravan
which included 40 Soudanese Askarias . Infon ation has also
be :n brought to Sheikh, anr] I started immediately with the
Camel Corps for the second tine. I arrived at Rargeisa a day
or two later and conducted an enquiry which shewed that the
French non had intentions of proceeding across the Kaud to the
;ull h. They could not have done so however, as their Camels
ware used ux^, and they had uia e no provision to cross the water-
le>.s uaud. I eventually sent the 40 Soudanese under a Camel
Corps escort to Zeyla and thence to 7)jiboulii, and I personally
convey d the Frenchmen undsr escort to Bulhar and thance by
dhow A term adopted by British officials to refer to local sailing vessels in the western Indian Ocean. to Zeyla and Djibouti, where I handed them over to the
Governor ’par interim*.

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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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