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a military road from Aden to the summit
Jebel Jihaf; and suggested that, should
Musurus Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. act on these instructions, he
might he informed that the internal ®^ raI1 8®’
ments, which the Government ot India though
it advisable to make in the nine Cantons, in
no way concerned the Porte, -f ' 6 Marquess
of Lansdowne, on the 9th November 1905,
informed Mr. Brodrick that Musurus Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
had not made any such representations, but m
the event of his doing so, he would be replied
to in the sense suggested by Sir N. O Conor.
Jn this Mr. Brodrick concurred, and added that
the establishment of a hospital and dispensary
at Dthala had been sanctioned tentatively for
a period of four months by the Government of
TnrliV
4. (See paragraph 7 of the Memorandum
for November 1905.) On the 13th November
1905, the Marquess of Lansdowne wrote to
M. Pansa, and stated that he had received
a report from the Senior Naval Officer
on the Aden Division of the East Indies
Station, from which it appeared that canoes
frequently left Obokh for Kadduha, south
of Mokha, with from 80 to 100 rifles in
each, and that, although no arms could
officially leave Jibouti, there was said
never to he any difficulty in obtaining a
clearance from Obokh by vessels engaged in
this trade. Captain Eustace added that, owing
to the disarmament of the Arabs in Yemen
by the Turks, the former were now endea
vouring to rearm themselves and found
Kadduha a very suitable place, as the Turkish
troops did not stop at Mokha and never
visited Kadduha. On the 19th December
1905, the Secretary of State telegraphed to the
Kesident at Aden and asked him to report, for
the information of the Secretary of State for
Eoreign Affairs, all the information available
regarding the arms traffic, direct or indirect,
from French territory, with special reference
to its effect upon British Somaliland.
5. (See paragraph 4 of Memorandum
for February 1904.) With regard to the
policy to be pursued towards the Saidi and
Hasani tribes in connection with their attack
on Mr. Bury’s survey party in January 1904,
the Secretary of State intimated, on the 8th
December 1905, that His Majesty’s Govern
ment approved of the views of His Majesty’s
Ambassador at Constantinople, as to the
necessity of proceeding with caution in the
north-eastern districts of the Aden Hinterland
which had not yet been recognised by the
Ottoman Government as being within the
British sphere. The Secretary of State also
observed that 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. had
instructed the Resident at Aden that all direct
pressure on the tribes in question was to be
deferred until there was some necessity for