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File 3463/1913 ‘Aden Frontier Proposed ratification of the 1905 boundary settlement’ [‎123v] (251/268)

The record is made up of 1 volume (130 folios). It was created in 1913-1914. 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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It is essential for free trade and to prevent interference by unscrupulous and
irresponsible municipal bodies that no duties should be leviable on goods once they
have passed customs—view which His Majesty’s Government have always held since#
the Commercial Treaty of 1861. Our recent experience m case of octroi illegally
levied at Adrianople shows that Central Government cannot or will not enforce its
authority against Municipal Council.
Moreover, it would be impossible obviously to devise any means to secure
properties and revenue by municipal or any guarantee that such revenue will not be
impounded by State in moments of financial stress as is believed to have been done in
the case of recent Constantinople municipal loan.
Counter-concession might comprise :—
(1.) Settlement of all outstanding money claims, including floating debt claims as
set forth in Constantinople despatch No. 512 of 1911, and claims arising out of state
of war, linaria, requisitions, &c.
(2.) Missionary question (see Constantinople despatch No. 331 of 1912, and
Church Missionary Society’s letter to Foreign Office of 7th July, 1913), on which I
shall be reporting in a few days.
(3.) Ratification of Aden hinterland frontier agreement.
(4.) Extension of Aidin Railway outside German zone.
(5.) Mesopotamian irrigation to go to British firm.
(6.) Oil concessions in Mesopotamia, Farsan, and Syria.
This list is extensive, but, considering immense pecuniary advantages that would
accrue from our concession to Porte, I do not think that it is exaggerated.
As to inopportuneness from political point of view of proceeding with the
negotiations at present moment, I beg leave to urge again considerations submitted in
my telegram No. 407
To discuss adequately with Hakki Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , an ex-legal adviser to the Porte,
question which forms subject of proposed declaration requires very intimate and
extensive knowledge such as can only be acquired by long experience here, and it is
imperative, in my opinion, that, if these negotiations are to be pursued, member of
embassy or consulate-general should take part in them.

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The volume contains 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. correspondence with the Foreign Office, mainly about the latter’s proposal to seek ratification of the Aden boundary settlement of 1905, as part of British counter-concessions to be tabled at the Anglo-Turkish Commercial Convention negotiations in London, 1913-1914. Included in this correspondence are observations made by the Viceroy of India, representing the views of the Government of India on the Aden frontier question; and discussions with the War Office, London, and the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, about the reproduction of the Aden boundary protocols and maps in connection with the ratification process. The volume includes two, mainly French versions of the Aden Boundary Protocols of 1903, 1904 and 1905, jointly signed by Colonel R A Wahab and Colonel Moustapha Remzi Bey, the respective British and Ottoman boundary commissioners, together with two War Office maps dated 1906 and 1914, showing the Aden Protectorate boundary line and on the earlier map, tribal names and boundaries. There are also printed copies in French of a draft version (signed and dated 13 February 1914) and final version (signed and dated 9 March 1914) of the Anglo-Ottoman convention on the Aden frontier, in which both governments agreed to exchange instruments of ratification in London within three months.

The volume also contains less extensive correspondence about the commercial proposal (in French) dated 31 July 1913, drafted by Ibrahim Hakki Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. , the chief Ottoman negotiator in London. This correspondence includes detailed observations made by the British Chargé d’Affaires at Constantinople [Istanbul] and the Board of Trade in London, about the further trade concessions in Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. countries sought by the Imperial Ottoman Government.

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1 volume (130 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume. The subject 3463 (Aden Frontier – proposed ratification of the 1905 boundary settlement) consists of one volume.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 132; 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.

A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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