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grant of a medal. This in turn might have involved the reconsideration of the decision as to the despatches relating to the similar operations in the dry season of 1907-8. No reason having been adduced to warrant such reconsideration, the Council recommended that the Governor should be so informed, and that it should be explained to him what his request involved.

3. Operations in Somaliland in 1908, 1909, 1910.

The Council had before them a despatch dated the 31st March, 1910, from Captain Cordeaux, the late Commissioner of the Somaliland Protectorate, covering a report by Colonel J. Gough, V.C., the late Inspector-General of the King's African Rifles, on the operations in Somaliland.

The Committee decided to recommend that the despatch and the report 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 operations in Somaliland between the 19th August, 1908, and the 31st January, 1910.

In making this recommendation the Council desired to place on record their opinion that the publication of the despatches and the grant of a medal should in no case be made the ground for recommending individual military rewards to any of the officers or non-commissioned officers concerned, other than the reward involved by mention in the despatches published.

4. Operations in the Dar Nuba District of Kordofan.

The Council had before them a despatch, dated the 4th January, 1909, from Sir Eldon Gorst to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, transmitting a despatch from the Governor-General of the Soudan relating to these operations.

The Council felt considerable doubt as to their status in regard to Soudan despatches, and also as to the precise purpose for which the despatch had been submitted to them. In the absence of a representative of the Foreign Office, they were unable satisfactorily to clear up these elements of doubt, and they therefore decided to adjourn the consideration of the despatch to a later meeting, at which a representative of the Foreign Office might be present to afford the necessary information.

Report of the Twenty-fourth Meeting, July 13, 1910.

Present:

Colonel the Right Honourable J. E. B. SEELY, D.S.O., M.P. (in the Chair). Mr. G. V. FIDDES, C.B., C.M.G.

(Representing the Colonial Office.)

General Sir I. S. M. HAMILTON, G.C.B., D.S.0. Lieutenant-General Sir A. S. WYNNE, K.C.B.

(Representing the War Office.)

Lieutenant-General Sir B. DUFF, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O., C.I.E.

(Representing the India Office.)

Mr. R. C. LINDSAY.

(Representing the Foreign Office.)

Mr. F. G. A. BUTLER, of the Colonial Office, Secretary.

THE Council met to consider Sir Eldon Gorst's despatch of the 4th January, 1909, enclosing a report by the Governor-General of the Soudan on operations in the Dar Nuba district of Kordofan, the consideration of which had been postponed from the

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last meeting. It was decided to recommend that the despatch should be published in the “Gazette," but that, with a view to publication, the Foreign Office should be asked to have the despatch abbreviated. It was suggested that the despatch should consist of a brief general description of the operations, followed by the specific mention of the first three only of the officers named in the list at the end, a general paragraph in praise of the manner in which the operations were conducted by those concerned being substituted for the long list of other names mentioned.

The question of granting a medal for the operations was not considered by the Council, as they were informed that the Khedive had already granted a medal to the officers and men engaged.

In the matter of individual rewards, it was decided to recommend that, when the abbreviated despatch was published in the "Gazette," a statement should be added to the effect that Major A. R. Lempriere, West Yorkshire Regiment, who has died since the despatch was written, would have been recommended for a reward if he had lived. It was also decided to recommend Captain J. L. J. Conry, D.S.O., Connaught Rangers, for a brevet majority. As to Captain H. D. W. Lloyd, the Cameronians, it was felt that his services in political control were not suitable for the grant of a military reward, and it was therefore decided to recommend that the Foreign Office should consider whether his services would be appropriately rewarded by the grant of the C.M.G.

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