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SECRET.
HO. 1113.
POLITICAL DEPARTMENT;
Bombay Castle, 17th February 1910.
From
J. H. DuBoulay, Esq., C.I.E.,
Secretary to Governnent,
Bombay;
(128MAY1910
V//,
To
The Secretary to the Goverment of India,
Foreign Department.
Sir,
With reference to the correspondence ending with
Foreign Department telegram Ho. 2551-E.B., dated the 19th
t “ June 1906, I an directed to forward herewith, for the
information and orders of the Government of India, copies
of a letter Ho. A-200, dated the 22nd January 1910, from
the Political Resident, Aden, and of its enclosures, in
which he reports that the present Sultan of Beda has written
to him expressing his readiness to come down to Aden to
conclude the Treaty referred to therein, and enquires, with
reference to the instructions issued to him in 1906, whether
he should proceed with the necessary negotiations in the
matter. General DeBrath adds that the necessity for the
Treaty is as great as it was in 1906.
2 .
I am to state that the Governor in Council is unable
to concur in the Political Resident’s view. Whatever may
have