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engagement should be made either with the
Kotaibi or other Kadfan tribes, until it was
clear that the Amir of Dthala
with the support of the Political Officer, o
consolidate his position as paramount Kuler.
4. (See paragraph 5 of the Memoran
dum for September 1904.) On the 23rd Sep >
ember 1904, the Secretary of State asked for an
expression of the views of the Government of
India, at the expiration of one year, as to tbe
necessity for maintaining a Political Officer and
his escort at Dthala, and on the 9th Pebruaiy
1905 the Government of India expressed a
hope that the personal influence of the Political
Officer at Dthala might prove useful as a
means of conciliating the tribes.
The Government of India have now sub
mitted to the Secretary of State their formal
recommendations on the subject. They still
think that there is reason to expect that, if
time he given to Captain Jacob to consolidate
his position at Dthala, his influence may become
a factor of great imporlance in keeping the
tribes quiet and the trade routes open. Further,
that it will always be necessary to have an
officer on the spot to watch the conflict between
the Turks and Arabs on the other side of the
frontier, and prevent possible violations of
territory by either combatant, and intrigues
between them and the Amir; and they, there
fore, expressed a decided conviction that the
experience of the last ten months had shown
the presence of a Political Officer at Dthala
to be indispensable, not only on political
grounds as the pivot of a new system of deal
ing with the Hinterland tribes, but also as
likely to prove the most economical policy in
the end.
5. (See paragraph 3 of the Memoran
dum for July 1905.) The Government of India
have sanctioned, for a period of four months
as a temporary measure, the establishment of
a dispensary at Dthala for the free treatment
of Arab patients who may come in.
6. Somali Coast .—At the request of the
secretary of State, the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions.
have been asked to instruct the Besident at
Aden to render such assistance, as may be
legally m his power, in giving effect in Aden
to certain recommendations jointly made by
His Majesty s Commissioner for Somaliland
and Commendatore Pestalozza, as to the
imposition of provisional measures of punitive
SoSi tribes ! 11 th6 COmmerCe ° f defaulti “S
kish £biaT eedinSS ° f the Imarn ’ 866 Tur -
TURKISH ARABIA A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. .
T ri ' he Secretary of State has notified
that he does not propose at the present
moment to take any action in regard to Sri