File 869/1904 Pt 2 'Arms Traffic: - Red Sea, Africa and Aden'

Title:

File 869/1904 Pt 2 '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)
Senior Naval Officer in the Persian Gulf (correspondent)
HM Ambassador to France (correspondent)
Political Agent and Consul, Muscat (correspondent)

Date:

1902/1908

Description:

This volume is the second 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 volume contains copies of ‘The Somaliland Registration of Vessels Regulations, 1904’ and the ‘Aden Sea-traffic in Arms Regulation, 1902’. There is substantial correspondence about amending the 1902 regulation, together with revised drafts made in 1907 and 1908. Correspondents are officials at the Foreign Office, the India Office and the Admiralty in London and the British Ambassador at Paris, 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, the Political Agent at Muscat and the British Commissioner for the Somaliland Protectorate. Included in the correspondence are English translations of several letters sent and received by Sultan Ahmed Fadthl, The Abdali of Yemen (also referred to as the Abdali Sultan) in 1905 and 1907, and also by Said Faisal the Sultan of Oman in 1907.The volume contains a small amount of correspondence in French, in the form of a letter from the Italian Consul at Aden to the First Assistant Resident at Aden in 1906 and a letter from the French Consul at Muscat to the Political Agent at Muscat in 1907. The diplomatic correspondence also includes several English translations of notes from the Italian Ambassador and the Italian Chargé d’Affaires at London, to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in 1907 and 1908.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 (266 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 first folio with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 264; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. The front and back covers, along with the leading and ending flyleaves have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is present between ff 145-264 and is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Language:

English
French

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Arms control
Treaties

Geographic region:

Aden
Eastern Africa
Red Sea

Extent:

1 volume (266 folios)

Rights:

Unknown
Public Domain
Open Government Licence

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000365.0x0003e6_ar
81055/vdc_100000000365.0x0003e6_en
IOR/L/PS/10/33

Is part of:

British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

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