File 869/1904 Pt 3 'Arms traffic: Red Sea, Africa and Aden'

Title:

File 869/1904 Pt 3 'Arms traffic: Red Sea, Africa and Aden'

Contributor:

Senior Naval Officer, Aden Division (correspondent)
Admiralty (correspondent)
Commander-in-Chief, East Indies (correspondent)
Political Resident, Aden (correspondent)
First Assistant Resident, Aden (correspondent)
Governor of British Somaliland Protectorate (correspondent)
Government of Bombay, Political Department (correspondent)
Government of India, Foreign and Political Department (correspondent)
Foreign Office (correspondent)
Colonial Office (correspondent)

Date:

1909/1911

Description:

This volume is the third 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 main correspondents are ministers and officials at the Foreign Office, the India Office, the Colonial Office and the Admiralty in London, as well as officials in the Government of India Foreign and Political Department and in the Government of Bombay Political Department. Other notable correspondents are the Commander-in-Chief for the East Indies Station, the Commander and Senior Naval Officer for the Persian Gulf Division, the Senior Naval Officer for the Aden Division, the Political Resident and the First Assistant Resident at Aden, and the British Commissioner for the Somaliland Protectorate. The correspondence includes naval reports about the British blockade of the Warsangli coast [Somalia] in 1908 and Aden sea patrols in 1911; the ‘Agreement between the United Kingdom, France, and Italy respecting the importation of arms and ammunition into Abyssinia signed at London, December 13, 1906’ as published in 1907; ‘The Aden Arms (Sea Traffic) Regulation, 1910’; and sample forms used for the identification and regulation of dhows and other vessels in the ports of British Somaliland, Aden and Zanzibar. There is also a small amount of diplomatic correspondence, mainly from the French and Italian Ambassadors at London to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. This correspondence includes sample forms in Italian, together with revised instructions in French that were drafted jointly by the French and Italian Governments, for the enforcement of arms traffic controls in their respective protectorates of French Somaliland, Italian Somaliland and Italian Eritrea.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.1 volume (218 folios)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.Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 220; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio.

Language:

English
French
Italian

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Arms control
Treaties

Geographic region:

Aden
Eastern Africa
Red Sea

Extent:

1 volume (218 folios)

Rights:

Unknown
Public Domain
Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000365.0x0003e7_ar
81055/vdc_100000000365.0x0003e7_en
IOR/L/PS/10/34

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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