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'Volume II. MEMORANDA REGARDING OTHER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. 1905.' [97r] (198/228)
The record is made up of 1 volume (110 folios). It was created in 1905. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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21
SIAM.
Government, and to request that the Paris
Convention rules of 1903 should be followed.
Ihis telegram was also repeated to His
Majesty’s Minister at Bangkok, who replied
on the 12th October 1905 that the Minister
of the Interior had issued instructions that
traders arriving from the Burma frontier
stations between Dan Menao and Ban Mesowk
should be allowed to proceed without detention,
and that quarantine should be enforced ac
cording to medical officers’ instructions only
on persons suffering from plague.
33. (See paragraph 23 of the Memo
randum for August 1905.) The Siamese
Government have decided to retain the services
of Mr. Lloyd as Conservator of Forests, Siam,
and propose to pay him a monthly salary of
Its. 1,750 per mensem.
31. The Government of Burma tele
graphed on the 26th October 1905 that a tele
gram had been received from Captain Fabricius
of the Siamese gendarmerie at Mezauk that,
while he was drilling his gendarmes, a dakait
fired twice at him and wounded him in the
thigh and the knee. The gendarmes after
wards killed the dakait. Captain Fabricius is
a Dane in the Siamese service, who has
co-operated with British officers in suppress
ing dakaiti. The man who fired at Captain
Fabricius was reported to be a Shan possessing
a British passport from Bangkok.
35. The Government of the Straits
Settlements forwarded, for the information of
the Government of India, a copy of a letter
addressed to the Resident Councillor at Penang
by the
Raja
King
Muda, President of the State
Council of the Siamese Malay State of Kedah,
stating that it was proposed to abolish the
system of forced labour in Kedah and to sub
stitute a general poll tax on all classes of the
population with certain exceptions. His
.Excellency the Governor of the Straits Settle
ments caused the
Raja
King
Muda to be informed
that he was unable, as far as British subjects
l/llcl L HO VV CUO - i
were concerned, to agree to the proposal
without reference to His Majesty s Govern
ment and to the Government of India.
Calcutta ;
The 1st November 1905.
R. E. HOLLAND.
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The volume contains printed monthly memoranda of information received by the Government of India 'regarding external affairs other than those relating to the North-West Frontier Region of British India bordering Afghanistan. , Afghanistan, and Persia' for the months of January to March 1905 inclusive (folios 4-17); memoranda of information received 'regarding external affairs relating to Arabia' for the months of April to December 1905 inclusive (folios 18-54); and memoranda of information received 'regarding external affairs relating to the North-East Frontier, Burma, Siam, and China', for the months of April to December 1905 inclusive (folios 55-108). A note accompanying each memorandum states that they are 'based upon reports, the accuracy of which it is not always possible to guarantee'.
The combined 'other external affairs' reports (folios 4-17) relate to Arabia (Aden), 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. , the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , China, Tibet, and Bhutan; the Arabia memoranda (folios 18-54) relate to Aden, 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. , and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; and the North-East Frontier etc. memoranda (folios 55-108) relate to Tibet, Bhutan, China, Siam [Thailand], Nepal, Burma, and Assam.
Memoranda covering the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. include intelligence reports concerning Maskat [Muscat], Koweit [Kuwait], Nejd [Najd], Bahrein [Bahrain], Katif [Al-Qatif], El Katr/Katar [Qatar], the Arab Coast, Musandim [Musandam], and the Pirate Coast.
The memoranda relating to Arabia include references to the following subjects: political intelligence, tribal affairs, relations with the Ottoman Government, frontier settlement, pearl fisheries, quarantine, and slavery.
The memoranda regarding affairs on and beyond the North-East Frontier of India cover a similar broad range of political and economic intelligence.
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (110 folios)
- Arrangement
The memoranda are arranged in chronological order within in each grouping from the front to the back of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 112; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
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- Mss Eur F112/450
- Title
- 'Volume II. MEMORANDA REGARDING OTHER EXTERNAL AFFAIRS. 1905.'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:111v, back-i
- Author
- Curzon, George Nathaniel, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston
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