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Enclosure No. 2.
Foreign Office to India Office.
Sir,
No. 4738.
Foreign Office,
4th March 1912.
I am directed by Secretary Sir Edward Grey to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of the 1 st ultimo, regarding the extent to which,
under the treaties in force, His Majesty’s Government have the right to
prevent foreign subjects from entering or prospecting in the territory of
the protected chiefs in the neighbourhood of Aden.
2. I am to inform you in reply that Sir E. Grey is disposed to
consider that the wording of the treaties in question justifies, as it
stands, the prevention of such proceedings, and that be concurs in the
opinion expressed by the Marquess of Crewe that the course followed
in the last two cases quoted in your letter is preferable to that adopted
on the first two occasions mentioned as a means of making such
prevention effective.
3. It appears however to Sir E. Grey that, though according to the
strict wording of the treaties the chief concerned in each case or his
representative is the proper person to inform a particular foreign
subject that he must not enter nor prospect in the territory of the tribe,
it is undesirable to deprive the Resident at Aden or other British officer
of the power to discourage from such action any individual who may
apply to him for permission to enter tribal territory, and 1 am accor-
diugly to suggest that instructions should be sent to the officers to
whom such an application is likely to be made to reply to it by saying
that the chief in question has no power to grant it under the terms of
the treaty in force between him and His Majesty’s Government.
The Under Secretary of State
for India.
I am, &c.,
Louis Mallet.