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India Office, London,
4th August 1911
Secret,
No. 21.
To His Excellency the Right Honourable the Governor
General of India in Council.
My Loud,
I desire to invite Your Excellency’s attention
to the correspondence connected with the grant by
the Sultan of Shehr and Mokalla of a prospecting
concession to the Eastern Syndicate, Limited.
S.^In the letter of the Bombay Government
Eo. 3503, of 23rd May 1911, it is stated that the
Sultan “ has _ been informed that the Governor of
“ Bombay will not approve of any outsiders being
“ allowed inside his territory without their previous
“ sanction,” and I observe that on 24th March
1910 they directed the Resident at Aden to make
a similar communication to the Fadthli Sultan.
Again, in your telegram to me of 21st June,
Your Excellency states that the sanction given to
prospectors by the Sultan of Mokalla was invalid
until the Bombay Government had accorded their
permission.
. 3. Further light upon the relations of the
British Government with the protected chiefs of
South Arabia and the neighbourhood in such
matters has recently been thrown by a letter
addressed on 23rd December last by the First
Assistant to Resident at Aden to "the Acting
Consul-General for Italy in which the latter was
informed (in connection with the Sultan of Mokalla)
that “ it is not possible to permit the subjects of a
“ Foreign Power to prospect in tracts which are
“ under the protection of His Britannic Majesty’s
“ Government.” I understand that the Government
of Bombay are of opinion that, the British pro
tectorate over this part of Arabia being beyond
dispute, there would be no difficulty in sub
stantiating the Resident’s language diplomatically.
4. I further understand that the Resident at
Aden has recently refused permission to the Italian
Consul-General to visit Lahej, holding, apart from
political objections, that the grant of permission
would have entailed the provision of an escort and
have involved British responsibilities.
5. 88.