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operations. It appeared to the Council that only the Ogwashi-Oku patrol was of sufficient im- portance to warrant them in making a recom- mendation for the grant of rewards, and they accordingly decided to recommend that the section of the report relating to this patrol, with appropriate extracts from the Governor's covering despatch, should be published in the "Gazette,” and that the Africa General Service Medal, with the clasp of the year, should be granted to those who took part in the patrol.
3. Operations in Northern Nigeria during 1909.
The Council considered a despatch, dated the 24th June, 1910, from the Governor of Northern Nigeria enclosing a report on certain minor operations which took place during the year 1909. They did not consider that any of the operations were of sufficient importance to warrant them in recommending that a medal should be granted or that the despatch should be published in the "Gazette." They decided, however, to recommend that the West African Frontier Force Distinguished Conduct Medal should be granted to the following native non- commissioned officers and men of the Northern Nigeria Regiment :-
No. 2704. Sergeant Adamu Katsena.
No. 5299. Company Sergeant - Major Musa
Zambrama.
No. 5563. Lance-Sergeant Sumanu Jimba. No. 3670. Private Jibrim Kano.
No. 4273. Private Dan Hausa.
They also suggested that enquiry should be made as to the precise services or acts for which the following non-commissioned officers and menu, who took part in the Gussoro Punitive Patrol, were considered worthy of reward :-
No. 324. Sergeant Na Allah, Artillery,
Northern Nigeria Regiment.
No. 5063. Company Sergeant-Major Adamu Yola, "F" Company, 1st North-
ern Nigeria Regiment.
No. 3915. Lance-Corporal Adamu II, "D" Company, 1st Northern Nigeria Regiment.
PHISTED AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE BY J. W. HARKISON.— 9/3/1911.
INTER-DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL ON MILITARY REWARDS.
Report of the Twenty-sixth Meeting, November 15, 1911, and December 18, 1911.
Present (on the 15th November):
The Right Honourable Lord EMMOTT (in the Chair). Mr. G. V. FIDDES, C.B., C.M.G. (Representing the Colonial Office.)
Lieutenant-General Sir J. S. EWART, K.C.B., A.D.C. Lieutenant-General W. E. FRANKLYN, C.B. (Representing the War Office.)
General Sir BEAUCHAMP DUFF, G.C.B., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., C.I.E.
(Representing the India Office.)
Mr. F. G. A. BUTLER, of the Colonial Office,
Secretary.
THE Council considered a despatch, dated the 6th June, 1911, from the Acting Governor of the Gold Coast, enclosing a report from the Officer Commanding the Gold Coast Regiment on operations in the neighbourhood of the Tong Hills, in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast. The Council also had before them a despatch from the Acting Governor, dated the 19th April, giving fuller details about the operations and the object with which they had been undertaken.
After a preliminary discussion of the despatch, the Council decided that it was desirable that a statement should be prepared giving details of the operations considered by the Council in the last few years, and the manner in which they had been dealt with, in order that comparison might be easily made with despatches here- after laid before the Council. They therefore adjourned with a view to such a statement being prepared.
The meeting was resumed on the 18th December. On this occasion Lieutenant-General Sir J. S. Ewart was represented by Major-General C. F. N. Macready, C.B., and Mr. R. G. Vansittart, M.V.O., of the Foreign Office, attended in connection with an Egyptian despatch which it had been decided in the meantime to lay before the Council.
The statement which had been prepared was considered. It was then decided that, in the light of the treatment accorded to similar cases in the past, the Council would
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