CORRESPONDENCE
Forwards despatch from Cairo covering the observations of the Sudan Sleeping Sickness Commission on the report of the Interdepartmental Committee on sleeping sickness.
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Communicates the substance of the 101
report of the Committee appointed to consider the form of the annual reports on the destruction of animals in teetse fly areas in Africa; accepts the Committee's recommendations and requests that they may be followed carefully.
AS TO
THE CONNEXION BETWEEN BIG GAME AND SLEEPING SICKNESS.
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No. 1.
Transmits, in reply to No. 92, copies of 194
Nos. 96 and 97, and offers observations on the various questions dealt with.
SIR,
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE.
(Received 14 December, 1912.)
[Answered by No. 2.]
Foreign Office, December 13, 1912. WITH reference to the letter from this Office of October 29th last,* I am directed by Secretary Sir E. Grey to forward herewith, for the information of Mr. Secretary Harcourt, a copy of a despatcht from His Majesty's Minister at Brussels, transmitting the number of the official Congo Bulletin which contains a new Congo Decree modifying the Order of the 12th October, 1910, concerning the restrictions on the shooting of elephants. I am to ask that Mr. Harcourt's attention may be called to the fact that by this new Order all elephants may be shot whose tusks are heavier than two kilogrammes.
I am, &c.,
W. LANGLEY.
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No. 2.
SIR,
COLONIAL OFFICE to FOREIGN OFFICE. [Answered by No. 3.]
your
Downing Street, 24 December, 1912. I AM directed by Mr. Secretary Harcourt to acknowledge the receipt of letter of the 13th of December, forwarding a copy of a despatch from His Majesty's Minister at Brussels on the subject of a new Congo Decree, dated the 12th of October, 1912, respecting the restrictions on the shooting of elephants.
2. Mr. Harcourt is of opinion that so low a minimum weight of tusks as two kilogrammes must involve the eventual extinction of the elephant in the Congo, and he would suggest to Secretary Sir E. Grey that it would be desirable to ascertain from the Belgian Government the grounds on which the minimum weight has been reduced from ten to two kilogrammes.
I am, &c.,
H. J. READ,
for the Under-Secretary of State.
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No. 3.
FOREIGN OFFICE to COLONIAL OFFICE. (Received 4th January, 1913.)
The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, and, by direction of the Secretary
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