"المجلد II. مذكرات بخصوص شؤون خارجية أخرى. ١٩٠٥." [و‎‎٣‎٤] (٢٢٨/٧٢)

Memorandum of information received during
the month of August 1905, regarding
external affairs relating to Arabia.
£ Noth.—T his memorandum is based upon reports, the accuracy of
which it is not always possible to guarantee.]
ADEN.
1. (See paragraph 1 of the Memo
randum for May 1905.) Sir N. O’Conor, on
the 10th June 1905, proposed that the Aden
Boundary settlement {vide paragraph 1 of
the Memorandum for April 1905) should
be placed officially on record by an exchange
of notes with the Sublime Porte, to which
would he attached copies of the maps, show
ing the frontier as traced by the joint Com
mission, and of the proces verbal signed by
Mr. Eitzmaurice and the Ottoman Commis
sioner at Sheikh Said; and in regard to the
frontier north-east from the Bana River, that
it would he sufficient to insert in the British
Note a paragraph to the effect that actual
demarcation was postponed to a more favour
able moment. These proposals were approved
by His Majesty’s Government on the 11th July
1905. ^
2. A proposal by the Resident at Aden
that he should visit Jibouti and Berbera to
confer with the Erench Governor, with a view
to securing his co-operation in the suppression
of the illicit traffic in arms from the Somali
Coast, has been approved after consultation
wdth the Secretary of State.
3. His Majesty’s Government have
decided that Sheikh Omar Basar, a native
of Shehr and Mokalla, who started trading
with Aden and Hodeida 21 years ago, hut did
not become a permanent resident of the latter
place till about 13 years ago, i.e., about
two years after Shehr and Mokalla came
under British protection, is entitled to re
ceive a British passport for Hodeida. His
Majesty’s Government have requested also
that necessary instructions should be issued
for the. observance, in any other case that
may . arise, of the following principle as to
the issue of passports for Turkey to British
protected Arabs
. a I J ian who is entitled to British protec
tion refrains from, applying for such a protec
tion for a long period, the delay may doubtless
afford reasonable ground for refusing to extend
it to him, supposing always that the British
local officials consider such a course to be
desirable, but, if they are not of this opinion,